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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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Young, Gordon, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Temas:
Plant shutdowns > Michigan > Flint.
Urban renewal > Michigan > Flint.
Usines > Fermeture > Michigan > Flint.
Rénovation urbaine > Michigan > Flint.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Social conditions
Economic history
Plant shutdowns
Urban renewal
Flint (Mich.) > Social conditions.
Flint (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Michigan > Flint
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Summer 2009; Part One; 1 Pink Houses and Panhandlers; 2 Bottom-Feeders; 3 Bourgeois Homeowners; 4 Virtual Vehicle City; 5 Bad Reputation; 6 The Road to Prosperity; 7 Bar Logic; 8 Downward Mobility; 9 Black and White; 10 The Forest Primeval; 11 The Naked Truth; 12 The Toughest Job in Politics; 13 Urban Homesteaders; Part Two; 14 Quitters Never Win; 15 Burning Down the House; 16 Emotional Rescue; 17 Get Real; 18 Living Large; 19 Fading Murals; 20 Gun Club; 21 Bargaining with God; 22 Psycho Killer; Part Three; 23 Winter Wonderland.
  • 24 Home on the Range25 California Dreamin'; 26 Thankless Task; 27 Joy to the World; Epilogue: Summer 2012; Updates; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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