It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.

Cruise down the inner-city streets of Detroit and your eyes take in an array of familiar images of poverty and decay. In Talking Shops, Clements captures mural

In Detroit's Historic Places of Worship, authors Marla O. Collum, Barbara E. Krueger, and Dorothy Kostuch profile 37 architecturally and historically significan

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, a