Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City, Austin Dan

Автор: Galster George
Название: Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City
ISBN: 0812222954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812222951
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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For most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling population, moribund automobile industry, and alarmingly high murder rate. In Driving Detroit, author George Galster, a fifth-generation Detroiter and internationally known urbanist, sets out to understand how the city has come to represent both the best and worst of what cities can be, all within the span of a half century. Galster invites the reader to travel with him along the streets and into the soul of this place to grasp fully what drives the Motor City.
With a scholar's rigor and a local's perspective, Galster uncovers why metropolitan Detroit's cultural, commercial, and built landscape has been so radically transformed. He shows how geography, local government structure, and social forces created a housing development system that produced sprawl at the fringe and abandonment at the core. Galster argues that this system, in tandem with the region's automotive economic base, has chronically frustrated the population's quest for basic physical, social, and psychological resources. These frustrations, in turn, generated numerous adaptations—distrust, scapegoating, identity politics, segregation, unionization, and jurisdictional fragmentation—that collectively leave Detroit in an uncompetitive and unsustainable position.
Partly a self-portrait, in which Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories, Driving Detroit offers an intimate, insightful, and perhaps controversial explanation for the stunning contrasts—poverty and plenty, decay and splendor, despair and resilience—that characterize the once mighty city.

Название: Historic Photos of Detroit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
ISBN: 1684421314 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684421312
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Описание: The world is being taken over by robots There are robots that build towers, make cars, fix bridges, and play soccer. There are robots that travel deep under water, far into space, and into the most extreme danger zones. Some walk like a human, others fly like a bee, slither like a snake, or run like a cheetah. In this Level 2 reader, young readers will discover different kinds of robots how they work, the jobs they do, and what exciting things they might do in the future. The book uses simple text and full-color photographs throughout. With compelling themes, supporting facts, technical vocabulary, vivid maps and charts, and a

Автор: Michael Betzold, John Davids, Bill Dow, John Pastier, Frank Rashid
Название: Tiger Stadium: Essays and Memories of Detroit`s Historic Ballpark, 1912–2009
ISBN: 0786464488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786464487
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Drawing on the perspectives of historians, architects, fans and players, the authors describe how Tiger Stadium grew and adapted and then, despite the efforts of fans, was abandoned and destroyed. It is a story of corporate welfare, politics and indifference to history pitted against an enduring love of place.