dc.contributor.author | Um, Taylor | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-21T16:42:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-21T16:42:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-21T16:42:37Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/80613 | |
dc.description.abstract | The redevelopment of Detroit as a colonial wasteland naturalizes the present and denies the
racial capitalism that reproduces the crisis in an overwhelmingly black urban environment.
The denial of local community organizations and small scale growers of ownership over
lots they have stewarded with informal caretaking stands in stark contrast to the direct
access white for-profit farming businesses have in negotiating with city planners to
purchase bundled property. This kind of racial discrimination is not new;they are centuries old patterns of exclusion that legal scholar Cheryl Harris famously described in her 1993
article “Property as Whiteness.” Detroit’s urban agricultural community increase the values
of the lots they operate on while increasing profits for white speculators.
The thesis project explores a speculative decolonialized zone within Detroit; with Michigan
Central Station as an escape from state endorsed racial capitalism/oppression and a flight
into an architectural mountain built for autonomy. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | urban agriculture | en_US |
dc.subject | race | en_US |
dc.subject | detroit | en_US |
dc.subject | decolonization | en_US |
dc.subject | abolition | en_US |
dc.subject | settler colonialism | en_US |
dc.title | All The Way Down, This Time: Urban Agriculture and Food Justice in Detroit | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2021-06-17 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | N/A | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Steve Parcell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Brian Carter | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Roger Mullin | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |