Rust Belt Tour '09: Looking at Landscapes

Landsploitation by Jo Guldi

Sep 15, 2009Arts

In Rust Belt Tour '09, scholar Jo Guldi and activist Simon Strikeback traveled the landscape between Flint, Michigan and Holyoke, Massachusetts, documenting the foreclosures, arsons, vacant lots, anarchist squats, commun...

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