Teardown [[electronic resource] ] : memoir of a vanishing city / / Gordon Young
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| Autore: |
Young Gordon <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Teardown [[electronic resource] ] : memoir of a vanishing city / / Gordon Young
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.3/4160977437 |
| Soggetto topico: | Plant shutdowns - Michigan - Flint |
| Urban renewal - Michigan - Flint | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Flint (Mich.) Social conditions |
| Flint (Mich.) Economic conditions | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | abandoned houses |
| biography | |
| biology | |
| business | |
| career | |
| cheap houses | |
| cities | |
| city life | |
| city living | |
| crowded cities | |
| cultural studies | |
| dangerous cities | |
| defiant homeowners | |
| detroit | |
| economics | |
| engaging | |
| flint | |
| historical | |
| history | |
| housing | |
| interviews | |
| michigan authors | |
| michigan | |
| money | |
| oral history | |
| page turner | |
| personal memoir | |
| personal quest | |
| preservation | |
| realistic | |
| rust belt | |
| social history | |
| social justice | |
| social science | |
| sociological science | |
| sociology | |
| urban america | |
| urban homesteaders | |
| urban planning | |
| urban | |
| urbanism | |
| wealth | |
| Altri autori: | YoungGordon <1966-> |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue: Summer 2009 -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Epilogue: Summer 2012 -- Updates -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Sources And Further Reading -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Teardown |
| ISBN: | 0-520-95537-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786711703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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