Description
Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades. Claire Herbert lived in the city for almost five years to get a ground-view sense of how this process molds urban areas. She participated in community meetings and tax foreclosure protests, interviewed various groups, followed scrappers through abandoned buildings, and visited squatted houses and gardens. Herbert found that new residents with more privilege often have their back-to-the-earth practices formalized by local policies, whereas longtime, more disempowered residents, usually representing communities of color, have their practices labeled as illegal and illegitimate. She teases out how these divergent treatments reproduce long-standing inequalities in race, class, and property ownership.
Author: Claire W. Herbert
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/16/2021
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780520340084
ISBN10: 0520340086
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Social Science | Regional Studies
- Political Science | Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development
About the Author
Claire Herbert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon.