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Author: George Galster, Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University

Driving Detroit paints Greater Detroit as a place of intense international interest.  Many books have portrayed its various surfaces.  None have asked, “Why Detroit?  What makes it tick?”  Driving Detroit draws the city from multiple layers of principles gleaned from urban planning, economics, sociology, political science, geography, history, and psychology.  But it is also partly a self portrait, wherein Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories.  Driving Detroit is unique because it paints a portrait that not only helps the reader see but, more importantly, understand why Detroit’s social, cultural, political, institutional, commercial, and built landscape is the way it is. 

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