Supported by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, “Mapping the Egalitarian Metropolis: Spaces of Hope” featured work by six interdisciplinary research teams led by University of Michigan Taubman College faculty, each using techniques of deep mapping, critical cartography, and community engagement to reveal planned and unplanned places within Detroit. The contribution by Marc Norman, Kunheng Han and Colin Brown rethinks common tropes applied to the City of Detroit to contextualize and lift up the unique aspects of the city and the region.
Marc Norman 