Beautiful terrible ruins : Detroit and the anxiety of decline

Apel, Dora 1952- (Author).

Summary: "Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery that speaks to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster - in short, the failure of capitalism."

Record details

ISBN: 9780813574073 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813574072 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813574066 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813574064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813574097 (e-book (web pdf))
ISBN: 9780813574080 (e-book (epub))
Physical Description: print
xiv, 210 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Modernity in Ruins -- Ruin Terrors and Pleasures -- Fear and Longing in Detroit -- Urban Exploration: Beauty in Decay -- Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are the People? -- Looking for Signs of Resurrection -- Surviving in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape -- Conclusion: Your Town Tomorrow.