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First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756 e:

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Contents

Brian Doucet

George Galster

Reynolds Farley

Ren Kreichauf

Joshua Akers

Kimberley Kinder

Jason Roche

Julia Sattler

jessica Care moore

John Gallagher

Dan Kinkead

Sharon Howell and Richard Feldman

Khalil Ligon

Jessica Brooke Williams

Drew Philp

Friso Wiersum, Bart Witte, and Nikos Doulos

Tyree Guyton

Artist and founder of DetroitYES

Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network

Eastern Market Corporation

Avalon International Breads

Entrepreneur, owner of Slows Bar-B-Q and Ponyride

Feedom Freedom Farmers

The James and Grace Lee Boggs School

Author and neighbourhood organizer

Activist (19152015)

Brian Doucet

For more detailed information on each contributor, please refer to the editors introductions at the start of each chapter.

Joshua Akers is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Grace Lee Boggs (19152015) was an activist, author, and philosopher based in Detroit.

Lowell Boileau is a Detroit-area-based artist and founder of the DetroitYES website.

Dan Carmody is President of Eastern Market Corporation.

Phil Cooley is a Detroit-based entrepreneur and restaurateur and the owner of Slows Bar-B-Q, Gold Cash Gold, and Ponyride.

Wayne Curtis is a co-founder of Feedom Freedom Growers, a community garden on the East Side of Detroit.

Brian Doucet is a Senior Lecturer at Erasmus University College in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and from July 2017 an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Nikos Doulos is part of the arts-based collective Expodium , located in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Reynolds Farley is an Emeritus Professor and demographer at the University of Michigans Population Studies Center.

Richard Feldman is a member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership.

John Gallagher is a journalist for The Detroit Free Press .

George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University.

Tyree Guyton is a painter and sculptor and the artist behind the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.

Sandra Hines is President of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality.

Sharon Howell is a member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and a Professor of Communications at Oakland University.

Kimberley Kinder is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

Dan Kinkead is an architect and urban designer working in Detroit. He is a principal at the national design firm SmithGroupJJR and visiting architect-in-residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Ren Kreichauf is a PhD candidate at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany, and at CosmopolisCentre for Urban Research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Khalil Ligon is Chief Executive Officer of Vista Vantage Consulting Group, L3C, an urban planning and environmental design firm based in Detroit.

jessica Care moore is a poet, performance artist, playwright, and producer, as well as the Chief Executive Officer of Moore Black Press.

Drew Philp is a freelance writer and journalist from Detroit.

Julia Putnam is a co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit and currently serves as its Principal.

Jason Roche is an Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Amanda Rosman is a co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit and currently serves as its Executive Director.

Julia Sattler is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at TU Dortmund University, Germany.

Yusef Bunchy Shakur a father, author, neighborhood organizer and educator from Detroit.

Marisol Teachworth is a co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit and currently serves as its Programming Director.

Myrtle Thompson-Curtis is a co-founder of Feedom Freedom Growers, a community garden on the East Side of Detroit.

Jackie Victor is the co-founder of Avalon International Breads in Detroit.

Friso Wiersum is part of the arts-based collective Expodium , located in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Jessica Brooke Williams is a scholar of modern American history and art, with a masters in urban planning. She is a community development practitioner currently focusing on research and evaluation of local, state and national social service programs.

Bart Witte is part of the arts-based collective Expodium , located in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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