LEADER 04711nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910463883303321 005 20211005011625.0 010 $a1-283-89882-9 010 $a0-8122-0646-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206463 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065244 035 $a(OCoLC)822017746 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642663 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713891 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11394559 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713891 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10663867 035 $a(PQKB)11765376 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441911 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17524 035 $a(DE-B1597)450979 035 $a(OCoLC)979904888 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206463 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441911 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642663 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421132 035 $a(OCoLC)932312801 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065244 100 $a20111111d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDriving Detroit$b[electronic resource] $ethe quest for respect in Motown /$fGeorge Galster 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 0 $aMetropolitan Portraits 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2295-4 311 0 $a0-8122-4429-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tPrologue. Two Daughters of Detroit --$t1. Riding on the Freeway: A Riff on the Place Called Motown --$t2. Sculpting Detroit: Polity and Economy Trump Geology --$t3. From Fort to Ford to ... ? --$t4. From Old World to Old South and Old Testament --$t5. Who Will Feast on the Fruits of Labor? --$t6. Turf Wars --$t7. Wrestling for Pieces of the Proletarian Pie --$t8. Feasting on Fear --$t9. The Dynamics of Decay, Abandonment, and Bankruptcy --$t10. What Drives Detroiters? --$t11. From Motown to Mortropolis --$tEpilogue. Two Daughters of Detroit Revisited --$tSelected References --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFor most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling population, moribund automobile industry, and alarmingly high murder rate. In Driving Detroit, author George Galster, a fifth-generation Detroiter and internationally known urbanist, sets out to understand how the city has come to represent both the best and worst of what cities can be, all within the span of a half century. Galster invites the reader to travel with him along the streets and into the soul of this place to grasp fully what drives the Motor City. With a scholar's rigor and a local's perspective, Galster uncovers why metropolitan Detroit's cultural, commercial, and built landscape has been so radically transformed. He shows how geography, local government structure, and social forces created a housing development system that produced sprawl at the fringe and abandonment at the core. Galster argues that this system, in tandem with the region's automotive economic base, has chronically frustrated the population's quest for basic physical, social, and psychological resources. These frustrations, in turn, generated numerous adaptations-distrust, scapegoating, identity politics, segregation, unionization, and jurisdictional fragmentation-that collectively leave Detroit in an uncompetitive and unsustainable position. Partly a self-portrait, in which Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories, Driving Detroit offers an intimate, insightful, and perhaps controversial explanation for the stunning contrasts-poverty and plenty, decay and splendor, despair and resilience-that characterize the once mighty city. 410 0$aMetropolitan portraits. 606 $aSuburban life$zMichigan$zDetroit Metropolitan Area 607 $aDetroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.)$xSocial conditions$y21st century 607 $aDetroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.)$xEconomic conditions$y21st century 607 $aDetroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.)$xRace relations$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSuburban life 676 $a977.4/34 700 $aGalster$b George C.$f1948-$01028752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463883303321 996 $aDriving Detroit$92444851 997 $aUNINA