![]() With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists-all have been drawn to Detroit’s baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. 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. Once 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. You can read more on Detroit City is the Place to Be below – or by visiting the book’s (and Mark’s) page at MacMillian Publishers. Born and raised in the Detroit area (but now living in New York), Mark is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal, and has previously published a novel entitled: Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! ![]()
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