"Mapping Detroit" Book Talk W/Co Editors June Manning Thomas & Henco Bekkering

Co-Editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering visit the store for a visually engaging discussion about their newly released book "Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City" (A Great Lakes Books Series). About the book: One of Detroit's most defining modern characteristics-and most pressing dilemmas-is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to today's high-vacancy city. With contributors ranging from a map archivist and a historian to architects, urban designers, and urban planners, Mapping Detroit brings a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroit's transformed landscape.