Herron, Jerry & Committee for Urban Thinking
Herron, Jerry & Committee for Urban Thinking
Bio Sketch
Jerry Herron is an American writer and cultural critic (Wayne State University) whose "three meditations on the ruins of Detroit" are central to Stalking Detroit. The anthology's editors and contributors — Georgia Daskalakis, Charles Waldheim, Jason Young, Dan Hoffman, Patrik Schumacher, Christian Rogner, among others — formed the "Committee for Urban Thinking: Detroit" (1994) to "stalk" the city.
Key Works
- Stalking Detroit (2001) — edited anthology (Actar) with Daskalakis, Waldheim & Young; incl. Herron's "Three Meditations on the Ruins of Detroit."
- Herron's earlier Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline (1988).
Key Concepts
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Herron and the Committee matter to Geoffrey's capitalism, urbanization & gentrification and spectacle & iconic architecture areas: their critique of the "urbanism of the simulacra" and of touristic ruin-nostalgia (Vergara) directly addresses how post-Fordist ruin is aestheticized and sold.
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