Driving Detroit - The Quest for Respect in the Motor City

George Galster is Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University in Detroit.

List of contents

Preface

Prologue. Two Daughters of Detroit

1. Riding on the Freeway: A Riff on the Place Called Motown

2. Sculpting Detroit: Polity and Economy Trump Geology

3. From Fort to Ford to . . . ?

4. From Old World to Old South and Old Testament

5. Who Will Feast on the Fruits of Labor?

6. Turf Wars

7. Wrestling for Pieces of the Proletarian Pie

8. Feasting on Fear

9. The Dynamics of Decay, Abandonment, and Bankruptcy

10. What Drives Detroiters?

11. From Motown to Mortropolis

Epilogue. Two Daughters of Detroit Revisited

Selected References

Index

Ac knowledgments

About the author

George Galster

Summary

Driving Detroit paints a portrait of metropolitan Detroit through an imaginative application of social science, song lyrics, poems, and oral history to explain why the city has fallen from industrial powerhouse into urban dysfunction.

Product details

• Authors: George Galster
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2014
• EAN: 9780812222951
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2295-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Metropolitan Portraits; Metropolitan Portraits
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories