Mapping De
troit
Land, Community, and Shaping A City
Edited by June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering
One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. New from editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City uses a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to today’s high-vacancy city. With contributors ranging from a map archivist and a historian to architects, urban designers, and urban planners, Mapping Detroit brings a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroit’s transformed landscape.
Wayne State University Press | WSUpress.wayne.edu
Detroit Cop Tales Casinos, Sex, Lies, and Crooked Cops (volume 2)
By Iceberg Slim III
In a city where pomp and circumstance often precedes reality, where 90% of the population is African American and many are unemployed or worse, there is an avenue of financial gain open for those willing to take a chance; The casino! It lures the innocent, the curious and theadventurous, leaving many, disheartened, broke, and disillusioned. However, for one high class prostitute, it is also an opportunity to rise incognito through the cluttering, clattering and ringing of bells. During a clandestine meeting with author Iceberg Slim III, a retired Detroit City cop, some of the inner workings of the force was explained to me; corruption, money, violence etc. The cop, turned author, wrote this book, and others, in order to relate, in abstract form, some of his personal experiences.
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A Blue M
oon In China
By Elizabeth Pilar
In 1988, a twenty-one year old woman backpacked Communist China with little more than $400 in her pocket. Detroit author, Elizabeth Pilar has compiled a travel odyssey from the many notes she had logged in her journal during her trek. Weaving history with personal discovery, Pilar gives a descriptive account of the food, color, and natural surroundings of her journey, leaving plenty of room for her romantic ideas of culture and love to unfold. Fans of Under the Tuscan Sun and Eat Pray Love will find A Blue Moon In China to be a worthy experience.
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