by Mark Binelli
Inkster, Robert
Inkster (suburb)
Inner City (music group)
Intelligencer (newspaper)
Iraqi immigrants
Irish immigrants
Irving, John
Irwin, Nate
Issa, Darrell
Italian immigrants
Jackson, Maynard
Jackson Five
Jacobs, Jane
Jane Cooper Elementary School
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffries, Edward
Jenkins, Holman W.
job losses
job training
Joe Louis Arena
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Raphael
Jones, Charles “CJ”
Josephson, Matthew
Journey to the End of the Night (Céline)
Justice Department
Kahlo, Frida
Henry Ford Hospital
Kahn, Albert
Keats, John
Kelly, Mike
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company strike
Kennedy, John F.
Kenyatta, Kwame
Kettering, Charles
Khu (performance piece)
Kildee, Dan
Kilpatrick, Kwame
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Klegon, Frank
Kliesch, Jim
Knox, Stanley
Kraftwerk
Kreimes, Len
Kresge Foundation
Kucinich, Dennis
Ku Klux Klan
Kus, Fred
Lachman, Sheldon J.
Lafayette Park development
LaFollette, Robert
Land of Opportunity (Adler)
LaSalle, Robert
Lauckner, Jon
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Lebanese immigrants
Le Corbusier
Leland, Henry
Lenin, V.I.
Lennon, John
Lerman, Faina
Lewerenz Street demolition project
Lichtenstein, Nelson
Life
Lightfoot, Mrs. Madison J.
Limbaugh, Rush
Little, Earl
Little Egypt open-air market
Little Murder (film)
LOL: Laughing out Loud (film)
Loschi, Antonio
Louis, Joe
Fist sculpture
Lugar, Dick
Lutz, Bob
Macomb County
Macomb Daily
Madison Theatre
Mailer, Norman
Malbeuf, Joseph
Malcolm X
Mallet, Conrad Jr.
Mandeville, Ernest W.
Marchand, Yves
Markie, Biz
Mason, Robert
Mathis, Otis
Maxsar Digital Studios
May, Derrick
MC5 band
McCaffery, Maryanne
McClary, Titus
McCormick, Anne O’Hare
Meffre, Romain
Metropolitan Building
Metzger, Kurt
Metzger, William E.
Michigan, University of
Michigan Arson Prevention
Michigan Car Company
Michigan Central Station
Michigan State legislature
Michigan State University
Michigan Territory
middle class
black
Midtown neighborhood
Miller, Kenny
Milliken v. Bradley
model city program
Mogk, John
Moore, Andrew
Moore, Marianne
Morgan, David, Jr.
Moroun, Manuel “Matty”
Motor City Blight Busters
MotorCity Casino
“Motor City Is Burning” (Hooker song)
Motor Trend
Motown
Muhammad, Elijah
Mumford High School
Murphy, Eddie
Murray, “Reverend” David
Nader, Ralph
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
National City Lines
National Football League
National Rifle Association (NRA)
Nation of Islam
Naturescapes
New Black Panther Nation
New Jack City (film)
New Yorker
New York Times
T Magazine
New York World’s Fair (1939)
Next American Revolution, The (Boggs)
Nichols, John
Nobles, J’Rean Black
Nocera, Joe
Northland Mall
North Pointe Village
Notre Dame Catholic High School
Oakland County
Obama, Barack
Okdie, Mohammad
Oldest History of the World, The (Evangelista)
Olds, Ransom
Olds Motor Works
Olivet College
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Ono, Yoko
“On Vicissitudes of Fortune” (Bracciolini)
“Operation Inside Out”
Origins of the Urban Crisis, The (Sugrue)
Ottawa tribe
Outlook (Josephson)
Overman, Jermaine
Owens, Chauncy
Packard plant
Panini, Giovanni Paolo
“Ruins of a Triumphal Arch” painting
Parkman, Francis
Parks, Rosa
Patterson, L. Brooks
People Mover monorail
Peugeot, Armand
Pingree, Hazen S.
Piranesi, Giovanni Paolo
Poletown neighborhood
Poletown Plant
Polish immigrants
Pontchartrain, Count
Pontchartrain, Fort
Ponteach, or the Savages of America (Rogers)
Pontiac, Chief
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac Company
Pontiac Silverdome
Porter, Cole
poverty
Prasad, Raj
Pressley, Quan Tez
Prince of Parthia, The (Godfrey)
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
public transportation
Pugh, Charles
Purple Gang
Rachel Maddow Show, The (TV show)
racial discrimination
residential segregation
racial integration
racial tensions
Raleigh Studios
Rapson, Rip
Rather, Dan
Rattner, Steven
Reagan, Ronald
recession of 2008–12
Reckoning, The (Halberstam)
Recognitions, The (Gaddis)
Red Dawn (film)
redlining
Red Poppy society
Reed, John
Reeves, Martha
regionalism
Remapping Debate website
Renaissance Center
Renaissance High School
Renaissance zones
Republicans
Rethink Detroit blog
Reuther, May
Reuther, Walter
Revely, Rev. William
Revolutionary War
Rib Rack Killer
Richard, Father Gabriel
Rick’s Firearm Academy
rightsizing plan
“right to work” states
“Riot, The” (Clark)
riots
of 1863
of 1943
of 1967
Rise of the Creative Class, The (Florida)
Rivera, Diego
Detroit Industry
Roberts, Roy
Robertson, Captain
Robinson, Smokey
RoboCop (film)
Rochon, Harold
Rock, Chris
Rodin, Aug
uste
The Thinker sculpture
Roger & Me (film)
Rogers, Robert
Rolling Stone
Roman ruins
Romney, George
Roosevelt, Teddy
Rosa Parks Boulevard
Rosa Parks Terminal
Ross, Doug
Roumel, Constantine
Rudd, Mark
Ruff, Craig
ruin porn
Ruins of Detroit, The (Meffre)
Rusk, David
Saarinen, Eero
Saarinen, Eliel
Sanders, Jay
Saunderson, Kevin
Scream 4 (film)
Serbian National Hall
Service Street
Shabazz, Malik
Shaw, Harmonica
Sheeler, Charles
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shrine of the Black Madonna
Sinatra, Frank
Sinclair, John
Singer, Benjamin D.
Slater, John
slaves, escaped
Slumberland Child Development Center
Smith, Nathan
Smith, Patti
“Smithsonian of Decline” (Vergara)
Snyder, Rick
Sojourner Truth housing project
Solnit, Rebecca
Sons of Zodiac
Southfield suburb
Speer, Albert
Stafford, Jalona
Stalker (film)
Stand By Me (film)
Stanley-Jones, Aiyana
St. Aubin, Edwinn
St. Clair Shores (suburb)
Sterling, Madam
Stevens, Will H.
Strong, Barrett
suburbs
annexation of
black middle class and
Young election and
See also specific towns
Sugrue, Thomas
Surkin, Marvin
Survival Crackas
Sweet, Ossian
Sweet Juniper blog
Syrian immigrants
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Tavenner, Frank
taxes
teachers unions
tech incubators
Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit (compilation)
techno music
TechTown
temporary autonomous zones
temporary workers
Ten for Two rally (Ann Arbor, 1971)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (film)
Third Man, The (film)
Thomas, Gwen
Thorn Apple Valley sausage plant
Time
Tocqueville, Alexis de
To New Horizons (film)
Townsend, Marv
Toyota
Prius
Transformers 3 (film)
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Trumbull Street white anarchists (Trumbullplex)
Tuskegee Airmen
Underground Railroad
unemployment
Unemployment Institute
unions
contracts broken
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Local 174
United Public Workers Union
U.S. Army
U.S. Congress
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Supreme Court
Unity March of 1963
Upper Chene neighborhood
Urban explorers (urbexers)
urban farming
Urban Homestead Sector
urban planning
urban prairie
Urban Preparatory Academy charter school
urban renewal
urban-theorists
urban villages
vacant land. See also urban prairie
van der Rohe, Mies
Vanity Fair
Vaughn, Marvin
Vergara, Camilo José
Vermeulen, Corine
Very Harold & Kumar Chrismas (film)
Vice magazine
Vietnam War
Vita Anonyma (Alberti)
Von Battle, Joe
wages
Wagoner, Rick
Wall Street bailout
Wall Street Journal
War of 1812
Warren (suburb)
Washington, George
Watson, JoAnn
Watts, Steven
Wayans, Marvin
Wayne County
Wayne County Sheriff’s Department
Wayne State University
Weiner, Kenneth
West Bloomfield (suburb)
west side, defined
Westside Bible Church
Wheeler, Lonnie
White House blog
whites
election of Young and
flight of
hostility to Detroit
integration of suburbs and
return of, post-2008
Whitney Biennial 2012
Who Killed the Electric Car (film)
Whole Foods
Widick, B.J.
Wieske, Rich
Will, George
Willerer, Greg
Williams, Kevin
Williamson, Sonny Boy
Wilson, Jackie
Wolfe, Bertram
Wolpert, Ludwig
Wonder, Stevie
Wood, Holice
Wood, John
Woodward, Augustus
Woodward Avenue
King’s Unity March of 1963
light rail plan
working class
job losses and pay cuts
move to suburbs
World According to Garp, The (Irving)
World War II
Wurlitzer Building
Yakini, Malik
Yemeni immigrants
Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It (Dyer)
Young, Coleman
Young Boys Inc.
Zimmick, John
Zone (I-94 Industrial Project)
Zunz, Olivier
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARK BINELLI is the author of the novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Binelli, Mark.
Detroit City is the place to be: the afterlife of an American metropolis / Mark Binelli.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5 (hardback)
1. City planning—Michigan—Detroit. 2. Cities and towns—Michigan—Detroit. I. Title.
HT168.D45B56 2012
307.1'2160977434—dc23
2012016123
First Edition 2012
eISBN: 978-1-4299-7461-5