The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit / Andrew Herscher.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (312 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472900282
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Contents:
Unreal Estate : An Introduction -- Unprofessional Practices -- Ruin Harvest -- Detroit Demolition Disneyland -- FireBreak -- Salvaged Landscape -- Food Infill -- Earthworks Urban Farm -- D-Town Farm -- Georgia Street Community Garden -- Brightmoor Farmway -- Peaches and Greens -- Field of Our Dreams -- Municipal Therapy -- Motor City Blight Busters -- Greening of Detroit -- Hope District -- Navin Field Grounds Crew -- Detroit Mower Gang -- Furtive Inhabitation -- Detroit Blues -- Hookie Monsters -- Urban Yoga Lab -- Seed Detroit -- Unwarranted Techniques -- Feral Research -- Detroit Geographical Expedition -- Pink Pony Express -- Waste Curation -- Tree of Heaven Woodshop -- Architectural Salvage Warehouse -- Friends of Gorgeous Berries -- Public Secrecy -- Hygienic Dress League -- Secret Pizza Party -- Trtl -- Radical Hospitality -- Boggs Center -- Catherine Ferguson Academy -- Block Clubbing -- Unsanctioned Collectives -- Temporary Communities -- Dally in the Alley -- Theatre Bizarre -- Detroit Guerrilla Queer Bar -- John's Carpet House -- Tashmoo Biergarten -- Do-It-Yourself-Then-Together -- UFO Factory -- Yes Farm -- Micropolitanism -- Farnsworth Street -- Fourth Street -- Trumbullplex -- Urban Toeholds -- Center for Creative eXchange -- Filter Detroit -- Ego Circus -- Unsolicited Constructions -- Accidental Architecture -- Michigan Building Parking Garage -- Peacemakers International -- Blotting -- Extreme Housework -- Detroit Industrial Gallery -- Full Scale Design Lab -- Power House -- Scavenged Space -- Alley Culture -- Grafikjam Alleys -- The Lot -- Submerge -- Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit -- Patrimony of the Unlost -- Hamtramck Disneyland -- Car Wash Cafe -- African Bead Museum -- Heidelberg Project.
Summary: The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency was founded in 2008 as an open-access platform for research on urban crisis, using Detroit as a focal point. Against the apprehension of Detroit as a problem that needs to be solved, the Agency has regarded Detroit as a site where new ways of imagining, inhabiting and constructing the contemporary city are being invented, tested and advanced.
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Unreal Estate : An Introduction -- Unprofessional Practices -- Ruin Harvest -- Detroit Demolition Disneyland -- FireBreak -- Salvaged Landscape -- Food Infill -- Earthworks Urban Farm -- D-Town Farm -- Georgia Street Community Garden -- Brightmoor Farmway -- Peaches and Greens -- Field of Our Dreams -- Municipal Therapy -- Motor City Blight Busters -- Greening of Detroit -- Hope District -- Navin Field Grounds Crew -- Detroit Mower Gang -- Furtive Inhabitation -- Detroit Blues -- Hookie Monsters -- Urban Yoga Lab -- Seed Detroit -- Unwarranted Techniques -- Feral Research -- Detroit Geographical Expedition -- Pink Pony Express -- Waste Curation -- Tree of Heaven Woodshop -- Architectural Salvage Warehouse -- Friends of Gorgeous Berries -- Public Secrecy -- Hygienic Dress League -- Secret Pizza Party -- Trtl -- Radical Hospitality -- Boggs Center -- Catherine Ferguson Academy -- Block Clubbing -- Unsanctioned Collectives -- Temporary Communities -- Dally in the Alley -- Theatre Bizarre -- Detroit Guerrilla Queer Bar -- John's Carpet House -- Tashmoo Biergarten -- Do-It-Yourself-Then-Together -- UFO Factory -- Yes Farm -- Micropolitanism -- Farnsworth Street -- Fourth Street -- Trumbullplex -- Urban Toeholds -- Center for Creative eXchange -- Filter Detroit -- Ego Circus -- Unsolicited Constructions -- Accidental Architecture -- Michigan Building Parking Garage -- Peacemakers International -- Blotting -- Extreme Housework -- Detroit Industrial Gallery -- Full Scale Design Lab -- Power House -- Scavenged Space -- Alley Culture -- Grafikjam Alleys -- The Lot -- Submerge -- Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit -- Patrimony of the Unlost -- Hamtramck Disneyland -- Car Wash Cafe -- African Bead Museum -- Heidelberg Project.

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The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency was founded in 2008 as an open-access platform for research on urban crisis, using Detroit as a focal point. Against the apprehension of Detroit as a problem that needs to be solved, the Agency has regarded Detroit as a site where new ways of imagining, inhabiting and constructing the contemporary city are being invented, tested and advanced.

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