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, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading. This book suggests that the struggling city could not move forward to greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball.

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In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading. This book suggests that the struggling city could not move forward to greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew R. Highsmith, Highsmith Andrew R.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2015
• EAN: 9780226050058
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05005-8
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban America (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Urban and municipal planning and policy