ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests a "Multiple Detroit's" analysis, and begins by examining the Urban Austerity route, and the three games—Growth, Global City, and Identity—most frequently put forward as the determinant of Detroit's future. It examines what a New Social Detroit approach might look like. The Globalizing Cities game is one systematically tilted to push Polanyi's double movement in one direction only. As in Detroit, the fact of shrinkage is used as justification for public measures desired to achieve economic results disproportionately beneficial to specific business interests—just as essentially parallel measures in globalizing cities are justified on similar grounds. The distinction between individual justice and social justice should be kept in mind. There will always be individuals unhappy at the results of some individual competitions, but the resolution of such competitions is not a matter of social, but individual, justice, often through a judicial system. Social justice does not guarantee universal happiness.
