Report-ness Detroit

Data, Detroiters’ Spatial Imagination, Lisa Naudin, Mariam Samur, Middle Density, NESS. 1, Territory and mobility

City, City Planning, Community, Data, Depopulation, Detroit, Detroiters’ Spatial Imagination, Economy, History, Housing, Infrastructure, Land uses, NESS, Political implications, Population, Post-industrial Landscape, Residential, Street network, Urban fabric, USA, Vacant lot, Waterfront

Text by Florencia Rodríguez for NESS. On Architecture, Life and Urban Culture 1

Sources infographics:

June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering. “Mapping Detroit. Land, Community, and Shaping a City.” Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2015. pp.27-51.

Detroit Public Schools. Dept. of Social Studies. “Detroit: A Manual for Citizens.” Detroit: Board of Education of the City of Detroit, Michigan University, 1958.

William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. Map Division. Available online: clements/umich/maps

“Public Lands Plan: Vacant Land” by Ted Schulzt, General & Strategic Planning, Planning and Development Department of the City of Detroit.

Extended by: Detroit Future City. Publications Special Reports in site of Detroit Future City. Available online: detroit future city/research

United States Census Bureau. Available online: census.gov/topics/population

Detroitography. Featuring and Creating Great Maps of Detroit. Available online: DETROITography



Sources timeline:

Detroit Public Schools. Dept. of Social Studies. “Detroit: A Manual for Citizens.“ Detroit: Board of Education of the City of Detroit, Michigan University, 1958.

Jaime Castilla Santos, extended by the research of Beatriz Fernández Águeda and Jerry Herron. Castilla Santos, Jaime. “Searching for Sugar Land.” Koozarch, April 2017. Available online.

Fernández Águeda, Beatriz. “Futuros urbanos: la reversibilidad del proceso de deterioro”. Madrid: Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio, ETSA Madrid, 2013.

Jerry Herron, “Chronology: Detroit since 1700”, In: “Working paper: Complete Works 1 – Detroit”,. Available online.

Detroit Future City. Publications Special Reports in site of Detroit Future City. Available online.

United States Census Bureau. Available online.

Excerpt from: NESS. On Architecture, Life, and Urban Culture 1, 2018 -- https://actar.com/product/ness-on-architecture-life-and-urban-culture/

In his curatorial text for the Shrinking Cities[1] conference in 2004, Kyong Park used Detroit as the main case study for the phenomenon, and concluded with one open question: do shrinking cities grant greater power to global capitalism, or are they the places where post-capitalist economic models will form?