{"title":"Nick Tobier","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"looping-detroit-a-people-mover-travelogue-paperback","title":"Looping Detroit: A People Mover Travelogue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEqual parts urban culture and poetic travelogue, \u003ci\u003e Looping Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of observations each taking place in and around one station stop of Detroit's People Mover. Built in 1987, the People Mover was and is largely regarded as a public transit boondoggle--costly, circumscribed, and, in light of these, a particularly egregious investment within a city lacking sufficient public transportation. At a time when Detroit's downtown development is booming, with tremendous investment in a downtown that was ignored for decades, the very real possibility exists that this new interest will parallel the same investment patterns that brought the over invested People Mover to a fragment of the city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooping Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e invites artists and writers to ride the small loop as an explorer, mining the environs around each station as a poetic ramble, a psycho geographic wander, a cultural inquiry that simultaneously ponders the poetics of circulating above the city streets while probing the greater narrative of Detroit's public transit conundrum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors include award-winning Detroit novelists Lolita Hernandez and Michael Zardoorian, poets Gloria House and Walter Lacy, music producer Cornelius Harris, Chace MicWrite Morris, frontman of the Detroit hip-hop trio Coldmen Young, and radio producer Zak Rosen.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50808294277343,"sku":"9781607853794","price":31.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EruS3qOzDm9781607853794.webp?v=1785838863"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nick-tobier.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}