Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City

by John Gallagher

Book Overview

Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city's vacant spaces.

Experts estimate that perhaps forty square miles of Detroit are vacant-from a quarter to a third of the city -a level of emptiness that creates a landscape unlike any other big city. Author John Gallagher, who has covered urban redevelopment for the Detroit Free Press for two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334695
• ISBN13: 9780814334690
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"