![]() That phrase comes from Binelli’s new book, “Detroit City Is the Place to Be,” and he describes the city’s devastation frankly: Detroit has America’s highest murder rate and its most segregated population so many residents have left that Detroit now has almost as much vacant land as San Francisco has land, period. Its presence in pop culture is mostly relegated to what has been dubbed “ruin porn”: shocking true-life pictures and stories of how a great city and its landmarks have transformed into “America’s most epic urban failure.” It was hopeful.įast forward to today: No one would dare fictionalize Detroit when the city’s reality is so bleak. ![]() ![]() Detroit might have been down and out, but it was also resilient. When Mark Binelli was growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, he loved encountering the city in pop culture - as the dystopian stomping grounds of “RoboCop,” as the “Motor City Madhouse” of Ted Nugent, as the place to escape in Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Sure, they weren’t the most flattering allusions - they weren’t even that accurate: When Journey’s singer wails about a boy “born and raised in South Detroit,” he’s referring to a neighborhood that doesn’t actually exist - but they made Binelli and his friends smile.
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