After decades of suburban sprawl, job loss, and lack of regional government, Detroit has become a symbol of postindustrial distress and also one of the most complex urban environments in the world. In Revolution Detroit Strategies for Urban Reinvention, John Gallagher argues that Detroits experience can offer valuable lessons to other cities that are, or will soon be, dealing with the same broken municipal model. A followup to his awardwinning 2010 work, Reimagining Detroit, this volume looks at Detroits successes and failures in confronting its considerable challenges. It also looks at other ideas for reinvention drawn from the recent history of other cities, including Cleveland, Flint, Richmond, Philadelphia, and Youngstown, as well as overseas cities, including Manchester and Leipzig. Revolution Detroit surveys four key areas governance, education and crime, economic models, and the repurposing of vacant urban land. Among the topics Gallagher covers are effective new urban governance models developed in Cleveland and Detroit new education models highlighting lowincomebuthighachievement schools and districts creative new entrepreneurial business models emerging in Detroit and other postindustrial cities and examples of successful repurposing of vacant urban land through urban agriculture, restoration of natural landscapes, and the use of art in public places. He concludes with a cautious yet hopeful message that Detroit may prove to be the worlds most important venue...

Binding: Paperback;204 pages; Publisher: Wayne State University Press; Classification: AMVD; Weight: 464 g; Dimensions: 155 x 230 x 13

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