LEADER 00000cam 2200517Ii 4500 001 ocn842883490 003 OCoLC 005 20160518075535.7 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 130512s2013 cau ob s001 0deng d 019 842882045 020 0520955374|q(electronic bk.) 020 9780520955370|q(electronic bk.) 020 1299557279|q(electronic bk.) 020 9781299557277|q(electronic bk.) 035 (OCoLC)842883490|z(OCoLC)842882045 040 YDXCP|beng|epn|erda|cYDXCP|dMHW|dIDEBK|dCDX|dE7B|dN$T |dOCLCO|dMEAUC|dJSTOR|dDEBSZ|dOCLCQ 043 n-us-mi 049 GTKE 050 4 HN80.F54|bY68 2013 082 04 307.3/4160977437|223 100 1 Young, Gordon,|d1966- 245 10 Teardown :|bmemoir of a vanishing city /|cGordon Young. 264 1 Berkeley :|bUniversity of California Press,|c2013. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Summer 2009; Part One; 1 Pink Houses and Panhandlers; 2 Bottom-Feeders; 3 Bourgeois Homeowners; 4 Virtual Vehicle City; 5 Bad Reputation; 6 The Road to Prosperity; 7 Bar Logic; 8 Downward Mobility; 9 Black and White; 10 The Forest Primeval; 11 The Naked Truth; 12 The Toughest Job in Politics; 13 Urban Homesteaders; Part Two; 14 Quitters Never Win; 15 Burning Down the House; 16 Emotional Rescue; 17 Get Real; 18 Living Large; 19 Fading Murals; 20 Gun Club; 21 Bargaining with God; 22 Psycho Killer; Part Three; 23 Winter Wonderland. 505 8 24 Home on the Range25 California Dreamin'; 26 Thankless Task; 27 Joy to the World; Epilogue: Summer 2012; Updates; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 520 After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger and Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income levels, but is now one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion, speculato. 588 0 Print version record. 650 0 Plant shutdowns|zMichigan|zFlint. 650 0 Urban renewal|zMichigan|zFlint. 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xSociology|xUrban.|2bisacsh 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xSociology|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 651 0 Flint (Mich.)|xSocial conditions. 651 0 Flint (Mich.)|xEconomic conditions. 700 1 Young, Gordon,|d1966- 776 08 |iPrint version:|aYoung, Gordon, 1966-|tTeardown. |dBerkeley : University of California Press, 2013 |z9780520270527|w(DLC) 2012039951 914 ocn842883490 994 93|bGTK
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