Abstract
At 4:06pm on 18 July 2013, the city of Detroit, Michigan declared itself $18 billion in debt, filing for the largest ever municipal bankruptcy filing in United States history. Democracy was temporarily suspended, an emergency manager was put in place, and negotiations began in order to restructure the city’s finances and government organisation. The city however was not only broke; in the words of Judge Steven Rhodes, it was also in ‘service delivery insolvency’ (Eide 2016), nearly half of the property owners had stopped paying their tax bills and a large portion of the city’s water accounts were delinquent (ibid.).
Ph.D. student, Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, Department of Architecture.
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Avdoulos, E. (2018). The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis. In: Ferro, L., Smagacz-Poziemska, M., Gómez, M., Kurtenbach, S., Pereira, P., Villalón, J. (eds) Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18462-9_13
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