A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life buying a ruined house in Detroit for 500 dollars, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself. Detroit today is the Bushwick of 2015, the Williamsburg of the 2000s, Lower East Side of the 1980s, the Berkley of the 1960s, and The Greenwich Village in the 50s. The greatest sea change in American culture since the 1960s is happening in Detroit, and it contains the seed of something brand new and revolutionary for urban areas across the United States and Western Europe. As a resident, millennial, and participant, Drew Philp provides a unique vantage point from which to document this tidal shift.
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