{"product_id":"the-unreal-estate-guide-to-andrew-herscher-9780472035212","title":"The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntense 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 and practice of alternative urbanisms. The first sustained study of Detroit's alternative urban cultures, \u003ci\u003eThe Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility.\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eGuide \u003c\/i\u003edocuments art and curatorial practices, community and guerilla gardens, urban farming and forestry, cultural platforms, living archives, evangelical missions, temporary public spaces, intentional communities, furtive monuments, outsider architecture, and other work made possible by the ready availability of urban space in Detroit. The \u003ci\u003eGuide \u003c\/i\u003eposes these spaces as \"unreal estate\" urban territory that has slipped through the free- market economy and entered other regimes of value, other contexts of meaning, and other systems of use. The appropriation of this territory in Detroit, the \u003ci\u003eGuide\u003c\/i\u003e suggests, offers new perspectives on what a city is and can be, especially in a time of urban crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Herscher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472035215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472035212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Andrew Herscher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447749816575,"sku":"9780472035212","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28c97de9-defd-486d-accb-c35b4fa5b266.jpg?v=1777234552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unreal-estate-guide-to-andrew-herscher-9780472035212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}