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DIY Detroit: making do in a city without services

Abstract

Detroit is the urban question America has been asking itself for decades. Over the past century, the city has symbolized American prosperity and the power of unions; the stark gap between Black and white urban experience; the fiscal and economic failure of the postindustrial city; and now the dystopia of large-scale urban abandonment. The Detroit that Kimberly Kinder describes in DIY Detroit is a city in which vast spaces are ungoverned by functional property markets and unserved by city workers or infrastructure.

Citation: Hinkley, S. (2018). DIY Detroit: making do in a city without services. Urban Research & Practice, 0(0), 1–2. April 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2018.1462962