| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Unbuilding a city -- On our own ground -- Stealing home -- White picket fences -- Accounting for unpayable debt -- Conjuring Terra Nullius -- Political ecologies of austerity -- The garden is a weapon in the war |
| Summary |
"In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots-more than a third of the city-as "vacant" or "abandoned." Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City's footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of conceptualizing urban abandonment. She challenges popular myths that cast Detroit as empty and narratives that reduce its historical decline to capital and white flight. By connecting contemporary debates over neoliberal urbanism to Cold War histories and the lasting political legacies of global movements for decolonization and Black liberation, she foregrounds how the making of-and challenges to-modern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics. Drawing on critical geographical theory and community-based ethnography, Safransky shows how private property functions as a racialized construct, an ideology, and moral force that shapes selves and worlds. By thinking the city "after property," Safransky illuminates alternative ways of imagining and organizing urban life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Urban policy -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Housing -- Abandonment -- Michigan -- Detroit
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African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Right of property -- United States.
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Property -- Social aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Economic history
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Housing -- Abandonment
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Property -- Social aspects
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Right of property
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Sociology, Urban
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Urban policy
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| SUBJECT |
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Michigan -- Detroit
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022045621 |
| ISBN |
1478024615 |
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9781478024613 |
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