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Dystopia or Utopia? Alternative Visions of the City of Detroit: Detropia and We Are Not Ghosts

Dystopia or Utopia? Alternative Visions of the City of Detroit: Detropia and We Are Not Ghosts 96 New Labor Forum 23(3) to the narrative of “urban porn” or succumbing Dystopia or Utopia? to voyeuristic images of urban ruins. Vacant lots Alternative Visions of the become green spaces for urban farms, back- City of Detroit drops for site-specific art installations, and out- Ewing, Heidi and Grady, Rachel. Detropia. San posts for rebuilding the city from the ground up. Francisco, CA: ITVS, 2012. Alternative visions of the city emerge in work- ing- and middle-class residents’ stories of self- Dworkin, Mark and Young, Melissa. We Are determination and community revival in the Not Ghosts. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2012. face of extreme economic adversity. Reviewed by: Heidi Gottfried DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542249 Detropia and We Are Not Ghosts address the decline of [Detroit], without succumbing to voyeuristic images of urban ruins. Detropia documents the industrial land- scape through a collage of iconic images and interviews of long-term residents of the city. We spend time with a host of likeable protago- nists whose lives make up the fabric of the city: George MacGregor, an automobile worker and president of a United Auto Workers (UAW) local; Tommy Stevens, a former auto- mobile worker and current owner of a blue- collar blues bar, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Dystopia or Utopia? Alternative Visions of the City of Detroit: Detropia and We Are Not Ghosts

Gottfried, Heidi
New Labor Forum , Volume 23 (3): 4 – Sep 1, 2014
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96 New Labor Forum 23(3) to the narrative of “urban porn” or succumbing Dystopia or Utopia? to voyeuristic images of urban ruins. Vacant lots Alternative Visions of the become green spaces for urban farms, back- City of Detroit drops for site-specific art installations, and out- Ewing, Heidi and Grady, Rachel. Detropia. San posts for rebuilding the city from the ground up. Francisco, CA: ITVS, 2012. Alternative visions of the city emerge in work- ing- and middle-class residents’ stories of self- Dworkin, Mark and Young, Melissa. We Are determination and community revival in the Not Ghosts. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2012. face of extreme economic adversity. Reviewed by: Heidi Gottfried DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542249 Detropia and We Are Not Ghosts address the decline of [Detroit], without succumbing to voyeuristic images of urban ruins. Detropia documents the industrial land- scape through a collage of iconic images and interviews of long-term residents of the city. We spend time with a host of likeable protago- nists whose lives make up the fabric of the city: George MacGregor, an automobile worker and president of a United Auto Workers (UAW) local; Tommy Stevens, a former auto- mobile worker and current owner of a blue- collar blues bar,

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Published: Sep 1, 2014

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