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Detroit: a biography

By Scott , Martelle

Book information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781613748848, 9781569765265, 1613748841, 156976526X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5790605 bytes)
Pages
xvi, 288 pages: illustrations; 23 cm\322
Time added
2020-11-29 04:14:40
History;Nonfiction;Biography;Geography;Cities;Soci

Description

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out.Detroit: A Biographytakes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse—from nearly two million residents in 1950 to less than 715,000 some six decades later—resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deeply ingrained racism. Drawing from U.S. Census data and including profiles of individuals who embody the recent struggles and hopes of the city, this book chronicles the evolution of what a modern city once was and what it has become.

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