Demolition Means Progress : Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis /

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, signs were placed around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress," suggesting that the struggling metropolis could not move forward to greatness until the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Highsmith, Andrew R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Ã2015
Colección:Historical studies of urban America.
Temas:
City planning > Social aspects > Michigan > Flint.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
City planning > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Flint (Mich.) > History.
Flint (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Flint (Mich.) > Social conditions.
Michigan > Flint.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Company Town; 1. City Building and Boundary Making; 2. From Community Education to Neighborhood Schools; 3. Jim Crow, GM Crow; 4. Suburban Renewal; 5. The Metropolitan Moment; Part II. Fractured Metropolis; 6. "Our City Believes in Lily-White Neighborhoods"; 7. Jim Crow in the Era of Civil Rights; 8. Suburban Crisis; 9. The Battle over School Desegregation; 10. "The Fall of Flint"; Epilogue: "America Is a Thousand Flints"; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations in the Notes; Notes; Index.

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