Publisher's Synopsis
Detroit is a thoroughly modern city. Built to service the single-minded imperatives of automobile production, Detroit has come to represent the temporary nature of urbanism in the context of increasingly mobile capital.;In the first half of the 20th century Detroit served as an international model for industrial urbanism arranged to optimize profits from the investment of speculative capital. In the second half of the 20th century, the city lost half its population in the face of increasingly global capital markets and decentralized production methods.;"Stalking Detroit" is an anthology of essays, photographs and projects, each offering an intellectual purchase from the urban milieu of Detroit at the end of the 20th century and attempting to document the residue of its material history. The volume contains photographic essays by Jordi Bernad , Monica Rosell and Alex Maclean.;This text is also available in a Spanish language version, ISBN 84-95273-90-X.
