Rethink, remake, redo: John Gallagher explores Detroit's brave new world in visionary book

October 21 2010, 4:35pm

This is a sobering account -- a wakeup call, of sorts -- that asks you to imagine a future in the midst of crisis. Written with footnotes for the academic reader and the author's own photography, Gallagher places Detroit in the context of other cities that are reinventing themselves; while shrinking, but growing through qualitative development.

Quoting the Japanese poet Masahide, Gallagher writes, "Barn's burnt down -- now I can see the moon."

Gallagher envisions a future for Detroit, but it's not what many people think.

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