Demolition Means Progress

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  • Demolition Means Progress Book Detail

  • Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
  • Release Date : 2016-12-30
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 399
  • ISBN 13 : 022641955X
  • File Size : 9,9 MB
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Demolition Means Progress by Andrew R. Highsmith PDF Summary

Book Description: Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."

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