Detroit City Is the Place to Be (48 page)

suburbs

annexation of

black middle class and

Young election and

See also
specific towns

Sugrue, Thomas

Surkin, Marvin

Survival Crackas

Sweet, Ossian

Sweet Juniper blog

Syrian immigrants

Tarkovsky, Andrei

Tavenner, Frank

taxes

teachers unions

tech incubators

Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
(compilation)

techno music

TechTown

temporary autonomous zones

temporary workers

Ten for Two rally (Ann Arbor, 1971)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(film)

Third Man, The
(film)

Thomas, Gwen

Thorn Apple Valley sausage plant

Time

Tocqueville, Alexis de

To New Horizons
(film)

Townsend, Marv

Toyota

Prius

Transformers 3
(film)

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Trumbull Street white anarchists (Trumbullplex)

Tuskegee Airmen

Underground Railroad

unemployment

Unemployment Institute

unions

contracts broken

United Auto Workers (UAW)

Local 174

United Public Workers Union

U.S. Army

U.S. Congress

U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. Supreme Court

Unity March of 1963

Upper Chene neighborhood

Urban explorers (urbexers)

urban farming

Urban Homestead Sector

urban planning

urban prairie

Urban Preparatory Academy charter school

urban renewal

urban-theorists

urban villages

vacant land.
See also
urban prairie

van der Rohe, Mies

Vanity Fair

Vaughn, Marvin

Vergara, Camilo José

Vermeulen, Corine

Very Harold & Kumar Chrismas
(film)

Vice
magazine

Vietnam War

Vita Anonyma
(Alberti)

Von Battle, Joe

wages

Wagoner, Rick

Wall Street bailout

Wall Street Journal

War of 1812

Warren (suburb)

Washington, George

Watson, JoAnn

Watts, Steven

Wayans, Marvin

Wayne County

Wayne County Sheriff’s Department

Wayne State University

Weiner, Kenneth

West Bloomfield (suburb)

west side, defined

Westside Bible Church

Wheeler, Lonnie

White House blog

whites

election of Young and

flight of

hostility to Detroit

integration of suburbs and

return of, post-2008

Whitney Biennial 2012

Who Killed the Electric Car
(film)

Whole Foods

Widick, B.J.

Wieske, Rich

Will, George

Willerer, Greg

Williams, Kevin

Williamson, Sonny Boy

Wilson, Jackie

Wolfe, Bertram

Wolpert, Ludwig

Wonder, Stevie

Wood, Holice

Wood, John

Woodward, Augustus

Woodward Avenue

King’s Unity March of 1963

light rail plan

working class

job losses and pay cuts

move to suburbs

World According to Garp, The
(Irving)

World War II

Wurlitzer Building

Yakini, Malik

Yemeni immigrants

Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It
(Dyer)

Young, Coleman

Young Boys Inc.

Zimmick, John

Zone (I-94 Industrial Project)

Zunz, Olivier

Also by Mark Binelli

Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M
ARK
B
INELLI
is the author of the novel
Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
and a contributing editor at
Rolling Stone
and
Men’s Journal.
Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data

Binelli, Mark.

    Detroit City is the place to be: the afterlife of an American metropolis / Mark Binelli.

        p.  cm.

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5 (hardback)

    1.  City planning—Michigan—Detroit.   2.  Cities and towns—Michigan—Detroit.   I.  Title.

    HT168.D45B56 2012

    307.1'2160977434—dc23

2012016123

First Edition 2012

eISBN: 978-1-4299-7461-5