Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis
(Part of the Historical Studies of Urban America Series)
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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. Much more than a trite corporate slogan, the phrase encapsulates the operating ethos of the nation's metropolitan leadership from...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022605005X
ISBN13:9780226050058
Release Date:July 2015
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:398 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"
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