Looping Detroit: A People Mover Travelogue - Softcover

Tobier, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607853795 ISBN 13: 9781607853794

Verlag: Maize Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Equal parts urban culture and poetic travelogue, Looping Detroit is a collection of observations each taking place in and around one station stop of Detroit’s People Mover. Built in 1987, the People Mover was and is largely regarded as a public transit boondoggle—costly, circumscribed, and, in light of these, a particularly egregious investment within a city lacking sufficient public transportation. At a time when Detroit’s downtown development is booming, with tremendous investment in a downtown that was ignored for decades, the very real possibility exists that this new interest will parallel the same investment patterns that brought the over invested People Mover to a fragment of the city.

Looping Detroit invites artists and writers to ride the small loop as an explorer, mining the environs around each station as a poetic ramble, a psycho geographic wander, a cultural inquiry that simultaneously ponders the poetics of circulating above the city streets while probing the greater narrative of Detroit’s public transit conundrum.

Contributors include award-winning Detroit novelists Lolita Hernandez and Michael Zardoorian, poets Gloria House and Walter Lacy, music producer Cornelius Harris, Chace MicWrite Morris, frontman of the Detroit hip-hop trio Coldmen Young, and radio producer Zak Rosen.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Maize Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1607853795
• ISBN 13: 9781607853794
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116
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