Demolition Means Progress
Subtitle: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis
By: Andrew R. Highsmith
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780226050058; 9780226251080
Subjects: History; Economic conditions; Social conditions; City planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: City building and boundary making; title: From community education to neighborhood schools; title: Jim Crow, GM Crow; title: Suburban renewal; title: The metropolitan moment; title: "Our city believes in lily-white neighborhoods"; title: Jim Crow in the era of civil rights; title: Suburban crisis; title: The battle over school desegregation; title: "The fall of Flint".