I was lucky enough to talk to Josiah Rector of the University of Houston about his amazing new book Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit, published this year.
Detroit Ruin Porn is a oeuvre that is usually pretty gross. People in that proud city have struggled with negative feelings toward their city for decades now. No one is.
In studying urban history, one of the lessons of the disaster of public housing in the mid-twentieth century is that the big housing projects never asked or cared about participation.
Our post-racial society is pretty great. A 14-year-old boy nearly lost his life after being shot at while trying to stop at a home in Rochester Hills, Mich., to ask.
If only we could combine Michigan's draconian anti-water laws with Texas' love of killing people we would be able to deal with these savages committing the heinous crime of having.
The right to water should be a basic human right and Detroit shutting off water to people who can't afford to pay their bills is an immoral act. The federal.
So I am getting more than a bit sick and tired of poorly contextualized ruminations on the ruin landscape of Detroit. Some of this art and writing is interesting enough.
I got nothing against the Giants, but as an associate member of the Detroit diaspora, I gotta cheer for the Tigers in this one. Let this serve as an open.
