Mapping Detroit
Title | Mapping Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | June Manning Thomas |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2015-03-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081434027X |
Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit's history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Detroit in 50 Maps
Title | Detroit in 50 Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Alex B. Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781953368027 |
There are thousands of different ways to map a city. Roads, bridges, and railways help you navigate the twists and turns, topography gives you the lay of the land, and population growth shows you its changing fortunes. But the best maps let you feel what that city's really like. Detroit in 50 Maps deconstructs the Motor City in surprising new ways. Track where new coffee shops and coworking spaces have opened and closed in the last five years. Find the areas with the highest concentrations of pizzerias, Coney Island hot dog shops, or ring-necked pheasants. In each colorful map, you'll find a new perspective on one of America's most misunderstood cities and the people who live here.
Arab Detroit
Title | Arab Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | Nabeel Abraham |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Arab Americans |
ISBN | 9780814328125 |
In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit.
A People's Atlas of Detroit
Title | A People's Atlas of Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Newman |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2020-02-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0814342981 |
This innovative collection builds bridges between multiple areas of social activism as well as current scholarship in geography, anthropology, history, and urban studies to inspire communities in Detroit and other cities towards transformative change.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space
Title | Mapping Fairy-Tale Space PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Williams |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0814343848 |
Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. It analyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a Korean drama), the young-adult novel series The Lunar Chronicles, the Indexing serial novels, and three experimental short works of fiction by Kelly Link. Some of these texts reconfigure well-known fairy tales by combining individual tales into a single storyworld; others self-referentially turn to fairy tales for guidance. These contemporary tales have at their center a crisis about the relevance and sustainability of fairy tales, and Williams argues that they both engage the fairy tale as a relevant genre and remake it to create a new kind of fairy tale. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space is divided into two parts. Part 1 analyzes fairy-tale texts that collapse multiple distinct fairy tales so they inhabit the same storyworld, transforming the fairy-tale genre into a fictional geography of borderless tales. Williams examines the complex narrative restructuring enabled by this form of mash-up and expands postmodern arguments to suggest that fairy-tale pastiche is a critical mode of retelling that celebrates the fairy-tale genre while it critiques outdated ideological constructs. Part 2 analyzes the metaphoric use of fairy tales as maps, or guides, for lived experience. In these texts, characters use fairy tales both to navigate and to circumvent their own situations, but the tales are ineffectual maps until the characters chart different paths and endings for themselves or reject the tales as maps altogether. Williams focuses on how inventive narrative and visual storytelling techniques enable metafictional commentary on fairy tales in the texts themselves. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space argues that in remaking the fairy-tale genre, these texts do not so much chart unexplored territory as they approach existing fairy-tale space from new directions, remapping the genre as our collective use of fairy tales changes. Students and scholars of fairy-tale and media studies will welcome this fresh approach.
When Maps Become the World
Title | When Maps Become the World PDF eBook |
Author | Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2020-06-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022667486X |
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
Map and Manual of the City of Detroit ...
Title | Map and Manual of the City of Detroit ... PDF eBook |
Author | Silas Farmer & Co |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Detroit (Mich.) |
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