For this assignment, consider whether Detroit represents the “end of the American way of life” or a “new frontier” where the postindustrial city can be reimagined. In making your case, make sure to draw on specific episodes or examples from Binelli’s text.
Your paper must be submitted to Professor Schmitz, via e-mail, on Tuesday, April 28 by 8:00 p.m. The essay should be five pages in length, typed, double-spaced, and titled. Concentrate on writing a clear and concise thesis, with effective use of evidence from the book (i.e., multiple citations and quotes). Please note that your paper must have an argument.
Please use Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation style for your papers.
“[We] came like pilgrims to witness, to profit from, to somehow influence the story of the century. It might very well turn out to be the story of the lastcentury, the death rattle of the twentieth-century definition of the American Dream. But there could also be another story emerging, the story of the first great postindustrial city of our new century . . . It’s a place so unspooled, one’s wildest experiments, ideas that would never be seriously considered in a functioning city, might actually have a shot here. Nothing else had worked, and so everything was permitted…
“After I moved back to the city, people I met in dozens of different contexts described Detroit as ‘the Wild West.’ Meaning, it’s basically lawless. Meaning, land is plentiful and cheap. Meaning now, as the frontier literally returns to the city—trees growing out of tops of abandoned buildings! wild pheasants circling empty lots!—so, too, has the metaphorical frontier, along with the notion of ‘frontier spirit.’ . . . it’s undeniable that Detroit feels like an extraordinary place, and at the same time, just as Greenland might be called ground zero of the broader climate crisis, Detroit feels like ground zero for… what, exactly? The end of the American way of life? Or the beginning of something else?”—Mark Binelli, Detroit City is the Place to Be (16-17)
In 2009, reporter Mark Binelli returned to his hometown to examine its deeper significance for twenty-first century America. In your second paper, you will be using the ideas and concepts from Binelli’s Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis to explain how Detroit offers a vision of the urban future
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