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Teardown : memoir of a vanishing city / Gordon Young.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Gordon, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plant shutdowns--Michigan--Flint.
- Plant shutdowns.
- Urban renewal--Michigan--Flint.
- Urban renewal.
- Flint (Mich.)--Social conditions.
- Flint (Mich.).
- Flint (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income levels, but is now one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion, speculators scoop up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson is often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification. Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of a once-thriving city still fighting-despite overwhelming odds-to rise from the ashes. He befriends a rag-tag collection of urban homesteaders and die-hard locals who refuse to give up as they try to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons for cities all over the world. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often painfully funny, Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Prologue: Summer 2009
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Epilogue: Summer 2012
- Updates
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Sources And Further Reading
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Descripion based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780520955370
- 0520955374
- OCLC:
- 842883490
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