Ebook Demolition Means Progress Flint Michigan and the Fate of the American Metropolis Historical Studies of Urban America Andrew R R Highsmith 9780226419558 Books

Product details Series Historical Studies of Urban America Paperback 398 pages Publisher University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (December 30, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 022641955X

Demolition Means Progress Flint Michigan and the Fate of the American Metropolis Historical Studies of Urban America Andrew R R Highsmith 9780226419558 Books Reviews

• A woderful book not just anout the troubled plight of Flint, Michigan, but more importantly the history of cities in the US in the 20th century. Most timely and recommended for all readers, wherever you live!! Just amazing. Perhaps we can learn something about what not to do with our former industrial centers, but the past needs to be understood first.
• Excellent book. As an editor, writer and longtime Flint citizen, I have alluded to it and quoted from it many times over the past year in parsing Flint's complicated water crisis. In his scholarly but readable account, Highsmith helps us understand not only Flint's specific challenges, but also the implications of Flint for the nation as a whole.
• Great historical research by Dr. Andrew Highsmith, showing the little by little fracturing of the whole by decisions and their consequences. From St. Johns to New Flint, Dr. Highsmith shows multiple reasons of what could have eventually led to a corporation leaving its hometown, along with the multiple efforts of urban renewal to revitalize and save Flint from itself.
• . The story is a documentary of the fall of Flint, MI from a booming GM city to a comparative ghost town. Flint is my hometown, so it's an especially sad story for me. The author spends much time on racial segregation, but never shows how it contributed to the demise. The book needs a summary to bring all the factors together. The reader is left wondering why it happened.
• Demolition Means Progress Flint, Michigan
  This book truly hits the mark! I am a native of Flint, even-though I've moved away thirty plus years ago. I still continue to go home and visit family and friends who still reside there. Growing up, I always realized that Flint was segregated; Blacks lived either on the Northside of town and then on some areas of the south side of Flint. All of the surrounding areas of Flint was divided. But to be truthful, living on the northside of town was never much a problem; I was a student at Parkland Elem. Emerson Jr. High and Flint Central where I graduated from in the 70's. As time progressed, I did notice how much the city had started to change for the worst. This book goes into the details of the demise of Flint Michigan. I would advise that every person over the age of forty-five and older order a copy, and read for themselves the truth of what went on in our beloved Flint Michigan.
• A chilling story about my home town--even before the current water crisis hit.
• sent me the book all dirty and stickered up on the dust cover so I had to send it back. However, the book is amazing. I took classes with the professor in my master's program and the book is impressive. Research and attention to detail is what drives the writing. In addition, it helps that I am a product of Saginaw, Michigan, which I refer to as the new Flint. Cheers...
• I never knew how bad Flint was. I grew up in Flint but I lived in one of the "white" neighborhoods. I want to apologize to all the African Americans in the city of Flint for what we put you through.