{"product_id":"detroit-city-is-the-place-to-be-9781250039231","title":"Detroit City Is the Place to Be","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetroit City Is the Place to Be \u003c\/i\u003eis one of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest--and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Sharp and impassioned, \u003ci\u003eDetroit City Is the Place to Be\u003c\/i\u003e is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violence, economic devastation, political corruption, and physical ruin that have ravaged his hometown, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what could be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Binelli is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eSacco and Vanzetti Must Die!\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414816330002,"sku":"9781250039231","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53ffcab2-0de8-4868-aa25-0e585031d50b.jpg?v=1729386341","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/detroit-city-is-the-place-to-be-9781250039231","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}