{"231641":{"#nid":"231641","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Mark Binelli: Detroit City is the Place to Be","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday, August 28, 6 pm\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E Georgia Tech, School of Architecture Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium 245 Fourth St NW, Atlanta, 30332 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/artpapers.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0b37da71a1aca1a42b2614cc55fee2\u0026amp;id=bf7c5445ec\u0026amp;e=78b7c187cb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emap + directions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022100%\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00220\u0022 cellpadding=\u00220\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECo-sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture. Book signing co-hosted by A Capella Books immediately following the lecture.\u0026nbsp; This event is free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce America\u0027s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country\u0027s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city\u0027s worst crisis yet (and that\u0027s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists\u2014all have been drawn to Detroit\u0027s baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier.\u003Cbr \/\u003E With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city\u0027s \u0022museum of neglect\u0022\u2014its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie\u2014he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local; from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories; from the organic farming on empty lots to GM\u0027s risky wager on the Volt electric car; from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor\u0027s realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a longshot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning\u2014what could be the boldest reimagining of a post-industrial city in our new century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Mark Binelli is the author of \u003Cem\u003EDetroit City Is the Place To Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis\u003C\/em\u003E and the novel \u003Cem\u003ESacco and Vanzetti Must Die!\u003C\/em\u003E He grew up in metro Detroit and lived in Atlanta for six years before moving to New York City. He is a contributing editor at \u003Cem\u003ERolling Stone\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EMen\u0027s Journal\u003C\/em\u003E. \u003Cem\u003EDetroit City Is the Place to Be\u003C\/em\u003E was one of \u003Cem\u003EPublishers Weekly\u0027s\u003C\/em\u003E Top 10 Best Books of 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E MORE INFO: + \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/artpapers.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0b37da71a1aca1a42b2614cc55fee2\u0026amp;id=6dab247a77\u0026amp;e=78b7c187cb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENew York Times Book Review: \u003Cem\u003EDetroit City is the Place to Be\u003C\/em\u003E by Mark Binelli\u003C\/a\u003E + \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/artpapers.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0b37da71a1aca1a42b2614cc55fee2\u0026amp;id=a3d0ada862\u0026amp;e=78b7c187cb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EART PAPERS LIVE! at artpapers.org\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EART PAPERS LIVE! 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