Dream City Kickert Conrad Assisstant Professor University of Cincinnati
Dream City Kickert Conrad Assisstant Professor University of Cincinnati Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit.Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an…
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Dream City Kickert Conrad Assisstant Professor University of Cincinnati
Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit.Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers.
In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's