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Herscher to Launch "The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit"

Herscher to Launch “The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit”

Associate Professor Andrew Herscher will hold a book launch for his recently published book, “The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit,” on Thursday, December 6th from 8:00-10:00pm at Lab Café.

What if Detroit has not only fallen apart, emptied out, disappeared and/or shrunk, but has also transformed, becoming a novel urban formation that offers potentials as well as challenges? In recent years, this proposition has sponsored a growing number of responses, from small-scale ephemeral interventions to longer-term place-based activism, all availing themselves of Detroit’s vast repository of devalued, abandoned or vacant urban property. Posing these diverse responses as aspects of a condition rather than solutions to a problem, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit tells a new story of the city in a time of conjoined precarity and possibility—a story of urban decline yielding conditions favorable for urban experimentation, invention and, perhaps, change.

Lab Café is located at 505 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor

For more information about the book, visit: places.designobserver.com/feature/the-unreal-estate-guide-to-detroit/37368/ or places.designobserver.com/