Tom Sugrue wrote the book "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit."
Sugrue is a Detroit native and a professor of history and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He will be one of the keynote speakers at this Thursday's Detroit Policy Conference.
Detroit Free Press business writer John Gallagher, an author of a few books on Detroit himself, is hosting an online chat with Sugrue at noon today.
Sugrue recently told Gallagher that he leans "toward the pessimistic side" on the continuum of views about the future of Detroit.
Jump in the conversation below. They'll start at noon today.
