this month has a very illuminating article worth checking out titled, Detroit arcadia: Exploring the post-American landscape by Rebecca Solnit. Detroit, once the US's model industrial city, does it now hold an alternative future for another type of urbanism?
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damn, it's a pay-per-view article.
read the article over lunch. detroit's future definitely isn't the one that most people (especially americans) would like to believe, so i guess that it is aptly described as alternate...but i'm not sure urbanism is the correct word. the author seemed to be offering a vision that was almost utopian in its "sounds too good to be true" tone.
i've read a lot of bad articles on detroit, but that may have been the worst, chock full of every stereotype of the city. between the big bad racist suburbs and how the car killed the city, the author squeezes in the ineluctable glorious ruins. for the love of god, please tell lazy editors across the nation to stop sending their travel writers to detroit to chronicle the decay.
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