Abstract

Exploring the margin to make a revolution with geography: DGEI in Detroit. –The contribution presents the geographical experience of the DGEI - still little known in the Italian academia-lead by Bunge and Warren, in which theory and practice were applied questioning “the geography of the status quo” in a Detroit poor neighborhood, Fitzgerald. The DGEI was certainly
unconventional in research methods and topics for the time, but relevant today for all those who deal with inequality, social injustice and the right to the city and are in search of new research directions and methodologies.

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Keywords

• Urban Marginality
• Social Justice
• William Bunge