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What Godless Communism did to Havana, Godless Capitalism’s automobile industry did to Detroit—created a center of prosperity entirely dependent on one industry controlled from outside its borders, got everyone used to a solid middle-class standard of living which seemed to be eternal, then collapsed of its own incompetence and disappeared, leaving its dependants wondering how next they would live.
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The story of Detroit’s urban agriculture is not yet collected; our best resources are scattered websites, one of them “Model D,” part of Issues Media; much of this chapter relies on these sites. Of first importance, as more recent, is the article “Looking Back on a Decade of Growth in Detroit’s Urban Ag Movement,” by David Sands, posted September 14, 2015. http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/10-years-urban-ag-091415.aspx. Accessed 01/11/2016.
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Halberstam, David, The Reckoning, New York: William Morrow, 1986.
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https://www.bloomberg.com, May 11, 2018.
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Sugrue, Thomas, Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1996, 2005.
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Zernike, Kate, “Heralded Choice Fails to Fix Detroit’s Schools,” The New York Times, Wednesday, June 29, 2016, pp. A1, A14.
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From a Public Broadcasting System special aired June 30, 2016.
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Cara Catallo, “D-Town Farm Soldiers On,” edibleWOW December 7, 2017.
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http://detroitagriculture.net/urban-garden-programs/garden-resource-program; accessed 8/19/13;also http://www.greeningofdetroit.com/what-we-do/urban-farming. Accessed 4/3/2016.
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Ashley Atkinson, “Urban Agriculture: Fertile Ground for Community Growth,” World Wildlife Magazine, Fall 2014, p. 32.
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www.michronicleonline.com, accessed August 18, 2013.
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Barron’s, March 17, 2014, p. 31.
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Hanson and Marty 2012, Breaking Through Concrete, 129–136.
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“DPS announces new operator for Catherine Ferguson Academy, the Gladys Barsamian Preparatory Center and the Hancock Center”, Detroit Public Schools announcement, June 16, 2011.
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http://www.greeningofdetroit.com/who-we-are/about-us/; see also Richard Jackson 2012, Designing Healthy Communities, Chapter 10, “The City That Won’t Give Up: Detroit, Michigan,” pp. 139–156, esp. pp. 148–149. The site invites and appreciates donations, but I was not able to find any indication of 501(c(3) status, nor any financial information. One Detroit News article, no longer available, refers to Greening as a “non-profit.”
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Christian Science Monitor May 12, 2014, p. 8.
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Passage of farming ordinance: WDET: Detroit Council Legalizes Urban Farming, March 19, 2013. “No Stranger to Urban Agriculture, Detroit Makes it Official with a New Zoning Ordinance.” April 9, 2013 | Nina Ignaczak.
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Trimarco, “Detroiters Question ‘World’s Largest Urban Farm’” December 2012 YES! Magazine.
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Chris Hardman, “Edible Flint Sows Seeds for a Healthy Future,” edibleWOW, September 22, 2017.
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Will Allen, The Good Food Revolution, New York: Penguin (Gotham), 2012.
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Allen, op.cit, p. 133.
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Ibid. pp. 184–185, citing E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful.
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Ibid. p. 186.
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Ibid. page 187, emphasis supplied.
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Ibid. p. 194.
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Ibid. p. 225.
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Ibid. p. 215.
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Ibid. pp. 218–219.
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Ibid. p. 206.
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Stephen Satterfield, “Behind the Rise and Fall of Growing Power,” March 13, 2018. https://civileats.com/2018/03/13/behind-the-rise-and-fall-of-growing-power/
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Newton, L. (2020). Detroit, Michigan. In: Urban Agriculture and Community Values. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39244-4_2
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