Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022641955X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 398 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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But it was particularly devastating in Flint.”. “Powerful. Demolition Means Progress is a story of how people—in this case, the founding fathers of Flint’s white suburbs—used municipal government as a weapon, drawing borders of citizenship to exclude people of color and the poor from the region’s wealth. That’s a story that played out in metropolitan areas across America in the decades after World War II
Great historical research by Dr Amazon Customer Great historical research by Dr. Andrew Highsmith, showing the little by little fracturing of the whole by decisions and their consequences. From St. Johns to New Flint, Dr. Highsmith shows multiple reasons of what could have eventually led to a corporation leaving its hometown, along with the multiple efforts of urban renewal to revitalize and save Flint from itself.. Jan Worth-Nelson said Important book for understanding the Flint and beyond. Excellent book. As an editor, writer and longtime Flint citizen, I have alluded to it and quoted from it many times over the past year in parsing Flint's complicated water crisis. In his scholarly but readable account, Highsmith helps us understand not only Flint's specific challenges, but also the implications of Flint for the nation as a whole.. Rick Jones said It is not too much to say this book changed my life.. Let me explain. I was born in 195It is not too much to say this book changed my life. Rick Jones Let me explain. I was born in 1954, on Thomas Street in Mott Park (where you lived too, I believe) until I moved away from home 18 years later. My parents bought the house in 1946 and both died in it around 50 years later. My father, Jim Jones, worked for Citizens Bank, retiring as the VP of Personnel (the term Human Resources, grotesque but accurate, was not yet in use) and was the . , on Thomas Street in Mott Park (where you lived too, I believe) until I moved away from home 18 years later. My parents bought the house in 19It is not too much to say this book changed my life. Rick Jones Let me explain. I was born in 1954, on Thomas Street in Mott Park (where you lived too, I believe) until I moved away from home 18 years later. My parents bought the house in 1946 and both died in it around 50 years later. My father, Jim Jones, worked for Citizens Bank, retiring as the VP of Personnel (the term Human Resources, grotesque but accurate, was not yet in use) and was the . 6 and both died in it around 50 years later. My father, Jim Jones, worked for Citizens Bank, retiring as the VP of Personnel (the term Human Resources, grotesque but accurate, was not yet in use) and was the
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 old plants met the wrecking ball. Highsmith uses the case of Flint to explain how the perennial quest for urban renewal—even more than white flight, corporate abandonment, and other forces—contributed to mass suburbanization, racial and economic division, deindustrialization, and political fragmentation. Much more than a trite corporate slogan, the phrase encapsulates the operating ethos of the nation’s metropolitan leadership from at least the 1930s to the present. Throughout, the leade