Through the story of Detroit, once the "dream" city of capitalism in America and the Silicon Valley of the jazz era, its journey from the top to failure is recorded. Called the country's largest urban failure, the city of Henry Ford and Motown found itself grappling with social challenges such as riots, unemployment, and corruption. What happens to a place that has been used and discarded? Who stays to try to revitalize it? What new generations of people arrive there? Mark Binelli returns to his homeland to explore the vast abandoned areas, urban farms, and vibrant art scene, narrating the story of the new society emerging from the ruins. Detroit is redefined as a laboratory of the post-industrial and post-critical world, a city ready for the new centuries.