Stalking Detroit

by Charles Waldheim

Detroit is the most thoroughly modern city in the world. Built to service the single-minded imperatives of automobile production, Detroit has come to represent the temporary nature of urbanism in the context of increasingly mobile capital. In the first half of the 20th century Detroit served as an international model for industrial urbanism arranged to maximize profits from the investment of speculative capital. In the second half of the century, the city lost much of its population in the face of increasingly global capital markets and decentralized production methods. Stalking Detroit is an anthology of essays, photographs, and projects, each offering an intellectual purchase from the urban millieu of Detroit at the end of the century, and attempting to document the residue of its material history.
Edited by Georgia Daskalakis, Charles Waldheim, and Jason Young. Essays by Jerry Herron, Dan Hoffman, Patrik Schumacher and Christian Rogner.
50 color and 60 duotones.
9.5 x 11.75 in.

Perfect Paperback

First published January 2, 2002

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you can even find this book anymore (at least for less than $300) get it! Interesting series of essays and a project or two that deal with various aspects of Detroit's post-industrial malaise. It will bring a nervous smile to your face when sitting in your post-industrial downtown St. Louis apartment...guaranteed!