{"product_id":"looping-detroit-a-people-mover-travelogue-paperback","title":"Looping Detroit: A People Mover Travelogue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Tobier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts urban culture and poetic travelogue, \u003ci\u003e Looping Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of observations each taking place in and around one station stop of Detroit's People Mover. Built in 1987, the People Mover was and is largely regarded as a public transit boondoggle--costly, circumscribed, and, in light of these, a particularly egregious investment within a city lacking sufficient public transportation. At a time when Detroit's downtown development is booming, with tremendous investment in a downtown that was ignored for decades, the very real possibility exists that this new interest will parallel the same investment patterns that brought the over invested People Mover to a fragment of the city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooping Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e invites artists and writers to ride the small loop as an explorer, mining the environs around each station as a poetic ramble, a psycho geographic wander, a cultural inquiry that simultaneously ponders the poetics of circulating above the city streets while probing the greater narrative of Detroit's public transit conundrum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors include award-winning Detroit novelists Lolita Hernandez and Michael Zardoorian, poets Gloria House and Walter Lacy, music producer Cornelius Harris, Chace MicWrite Morris, frontman of the Detroit hip-hop trio Coldmen Young, and radio producer Zak Rosen.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799808999712,"sku":"9781607853794","price":31.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1a320c3c14970ca8f58ab3903d10d5de.webp?v=1780823307","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/looping-detroit-a-people-mover-travelogue-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}