The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination...

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Main Author: Herscher, Andrew (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2012
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