Detroit City Is the Place to Be (original) (raw)

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis is a 2012 book by , published by Picador (UK) and by Metropolitan Books (US). The book was later published in the United Kingdom by Bodley Head under the title The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant. Binelli, a contributing editor of Rolling Stone and a novelist, originates from a suburb of Detroit. Nicholas Hune-Brown of Canadian Business described the book as "a sympathetic portrait of a city managing its own decline and groping its way toward a new 21st-century identity".