A People's Atlas of Detroit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's Atlas of Detroit write by Andrew Newman. This book was released on 2020-02-19. A People's Atlas of Detroit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative collection builds bridges between multiple areas of social activism as well as current scholarship in geography, anthropology, history, and urban studies to inspire communities in Detroit and other cities towards transformative change.
When Maps Become the World
When Maps Become the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Maps Become the World write by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. This book was released on 2020-06-29. When Maps Become the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
Atlas of the City of Detroit and Suburbs
Atlas of the City of Detroit and Suburbs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atlas of the City of Detroit and Suburbs write by Elisha Robinson. This book was released on 1885. Atlas of the City of Detroit and Suburbs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A People's History of Detroit
A People's History of Detroit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's History of Detroit write by Mark Jay. This book was released on 2020-04-17. A People's History of Detroit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.
Detroit in 50 Maps
Detroit in 50 Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit in 50 Maps write by Alex B. Hill. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Detroit in 50 Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are thousands of different ways to map a city. Roads, bridges, and railways help you navigate the twists and turns, topography gives you the lay of the land, and population growth shows you its changing fortunes. But the best maps let you feel what that city's really like. Detroit in 50 Maps deconstructs the Motor City in surprising new ways. Track where new coffee shops and coworking spaces have opened and closed in the last five years. Find the areas with the highest concentrations of pizzerias, Coney Island hot dog shops, or ring-necked pheasants. In each colorful map, you'll find a new perspective on one of America's most misunderstood cities and the people who live here.
