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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American MetropolisDetroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 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. 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. Urban planners,
Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012
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. 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. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violence, economic devastation, political corruption, and physical ruin that have ravaged his hometown, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what could be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/05/2013
ISBN: 9781250039231
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.49w x 0.96d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/24/2013 pg. 36
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Holes in brackets are not spaced for studs!
Color: White, Number Of Shelves: 2, Size: 67"W x 6.5"D
So the quality of this not great, but good enough and they look nice enough on the wall. However, the bracket holes are not spaced at 16" intervals. WTF? I'm not sure who designed this thing. The molly plugs that came with it look OK, but to play it safe I used a cobalt steel drill bit and made my own holes in the bracket. Easy enough with some wd40. My other pick with this is that the screws to anchor the shelf to the bracket are black and and very obvious... they should have supplied some kind of cap.
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Great shelving!
Color: Black, Number Of Shelves: 2, Size: 40"W x 6.5"D, Color: Black, Number Of Shelves: 2, Size: 40"W x 6.5"D
These shelves are amazing, easy to install and look very impressive! Price is good too!
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Color: Brown, Number Of Shelves: 2, Size: 36"W x 6.5"D
These floating shelves look great and were easy to install. The invisible brackets give them a clean, modern look, and they feel sturdy once mounted. Perfect for adding storage or décor in a bathroom, living room, or bedroom. Great quality for the price.
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These are perfect easy to put together and sturdy enough for my decor to sit on. hardware was easy to it together.
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Color: Brown, Number Of Shelves: 2, Size: 24"W x 6.5"D
Nice looking shelves, easy to install and less expensive than similar shelving at the big box stores.
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