“Binelli is excellent writer and a sensitive and careful reporter.…He does a great job of presenting the arc of Detroit's 20th century: its rise as automotive capital of the world, its economic apex in the 1950s and its thudding diminishment.” - The Wall Street Journal “The single best thing to read if you want to understand what Detroit feels like today.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Magnificent.A crackling rebuttal to ruin porn, those glossy coffee table books that fetishize Detroit's decay…A clear-eyed look at promising recent developments, without any saccharine optimism.” - The New York Times “Heartbreaking…Darkly funny and prophetic.” - Rolling Stone “A sharply observed, insightful work of love and fury.” - The Christian Science Monitor
“First things first: Binelli can really write.A winning combination of humor, skepticism, and sincerity.” - The New York Times Book Review Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violence, economic devastation, political corruption, and physical ruin that have ravaged his hometown, but he also offers a glimpse of a long-shot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning-what could be the boldest reimagining of a postindustrial city in our new century. Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists-all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest-and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012
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