A Detroit story : urban decline and the rise of property informality
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A Detroit story : urban decline and the rise of property informality
University of California Press, 2021
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Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades. Claire Herbert lived in the city for almost five years to get a ground-view sense of how this process molds urban areas. She participated in community meetings and tax foreclosure protests, interviewed various groups, followed scrappers through abandoned buildings, and visited squatted houses and gardens. Herbert found that new residents with more privilege often have their back-to-the-earth practices formalized by local policies, whereas longtime, more disempowered residents, usually representing communities of color, have their practices labeled as illegal and illegitimate. She teases out how these divergent treatments reproduce long-standing inequalities in race, class, and property ownership.
Table of Contents
Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Social and Spatial Context
1. Urban Decline and Informality
2. Regulations and Enforcement
3. From Illicit to Informal
Part II Informality in Everyday Life
4. Beyond Politics or Poverty
5. Necessity Appropriators
6. Lifestyle Appropriators
7. Routine Appropriators
Part III Informal Plans and Formal Policies
8. Surviving the City or Settling the City?
9. Regulating Informality, Reproducing Inequality
Conclusion: Lessons for Informality in the Global North
Appendix: Research Methods and Data
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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