a. Issue One: Liza Weinstein.

A Detroit-native, I have wanted for a long time to turn my attention to the city and to its spaces of abandonment. It was by exploring Detroit as a teenager and by learning its sad story of neglect that I fell in love with cities. I wrote about Lansing, New York, Chicago, and Mumbai, but not until I wrote this essay did I turn my thoughts about Detroit into written words.

Bio
Liza J. Weinstein is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research examines the consequences of political-economic changes on the construction and reconstruction of cities. Her dissertation will examine the politics of redevelopment in Mumbai, within the context of India's contemporary economic liberalization. She received an MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and a BA from Michigan State University's James Madison College. In her free time - of which she currently has precious little - she likes to explore cities. Taking pictures and writing about them, she tries to distill their individual personalities and characters.