Author: Ladislas Segoe and Associates
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Comprehensive Master Plan of Flint, Michigan and Environs
Author: Ladislas Segoe and Associates
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Housing and Planning References
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Comprehensive Master Plan, Lansing and Environs
Author: Lansing (Mich.). Planning Board
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Demolition Means Progress
Author: Andrew R. Highsmith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625108X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
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 at least the 1930s to the present. Throughout, the leaders of Flint and other municipalities repeatedly tried to revitalize their communities by demolishing outdated and inefficient structures and institutions and overseeing numerous urban renewal campaigns—many of which yielded only more impoverished and more divided metropolises. After decades of these efforts, the dawn of the twenty-first century found Flint one of the most racially segregated and economically polarized metropolitan areas in the nation. In one of the most comprehensive works yet written on the history of inequality and metropolitan development in modern America, Andrew R. Highsmith uses the case of Flint to explain how the perennial quest for urban renewal—even more than white flight, corporate abandonment, and other forces—contributed to mass suburbanization, racial and economic division, deindustrialization, and political fragmentation. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom about structural inequality and the roots of the nation’s “urban crisis,” Demolition Means Progress shows in vivid detail how public policies and programs designed to revitalize the Flint area ultimately led to the hardening of social divisions.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625108X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
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 at least the 1930s to the present. Throughout, the leaders of Flint and other municipalities repeatedly tried to revitalize their communities by demolishing outdated and inefficient structures and institutions and overseeing numerous urban renewal campaigns—many of which yielded only more impoverished and more divided metropolises. After decades of these efforts, the dawn of the twenty-first century found Flint one of the most racially segregated and economically polarized metropolitan areas in the nation. In one of the most comprehensive works yet written on the history of inequality and metropolitan development in modern America, Andrew R. Highsmith uses the case of Flint to explain how the perennial quest for urban renewal—even more than white flight, corporate abandonment, and other forces—contributed to mass suburbanization, racial and economic division, deindustrialization, and political fragmentation. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom about structural inequality and the roots of the nation’s “urban crisis,” Demolition Means Progress shows in vivid detail how public policies and programs designed to revitalize the Flint area ultimately led to the hardening of social divisions.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Tainted Tap
Author: Katrinell M. Davis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662116
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city's tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of Flint residents who had demanded mitigation, those efforts have been incomplete at best. Assessing the challenges that community groups faced in their attempts to advocate for improved living conditions, Tainted Tap offers a rich analysis of conditions and constraints that created the Flint water crisis. Katrinell Davis contextualizes the crisis in Flint's long and troubled history of delivering essential services, the consequences of regional water-management politics, and other forms of systemic neglect that impacted the working-class community's health and well-being. Using ethnographic and empirical evidence from a range of sources, Davis also sheds light on the forms of community action that have brought needed changes to this underserved community.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662116
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city's tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of Flint residents who had demanded mitigation, those efforts have been incomplete at best. Assessing the challenges that community groups faced in their attempts to advocate for improved living conditions, Tainted Tap offers a rich analysis of conditions and constraints that created the Flint water crisis. Katrinell Davis contextualizes the crisis in Flint's long and troubled history of delivering essential services, the consequences of regional water-management politics, and other forms of systemic neglect that impacted the working-class community's health and well-being. Using ethnographic and empirical evidence from a range of sources, Davis also sheds light on the forms of community action that have brought needed changes to this underserved community.
Urban Renewal Development Plan: Martin-Jefferson
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The City Plan of Flint, Michigan
Author: Flint (Mich.). City Planning Board
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Genesee County 1990 Land Use-transportation Plan
Author: Genesee County (Mich.). Metropolitan Planning Commission
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Category : Genesee County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Genesee County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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