A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city /
Philp, Drew,
A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Five hundred dollar house in Detroit Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city by Drew Philp. - xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Prologue: best bid -- Raw material -- Clapboard siding -- Someone else's trash -- Windows and doors and airplanes -- A fence between me and the world -- Load bearing walls -- The furnace -- A knock on the door -- A chimney to the sky -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home.
"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
9781476797984 9781476797991
2016046283
Philp, Drew--Homes and haunts--Michigan--Detroit.
Dwellings--Remodeling--Michigan--Detroit.
Urban renewal--Citizen participation.--Michigan--Detroit
Subculture--Michigan--Detroit.
Community development--Michigan--Detroit.
Working class whites--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
African Americans--Social conditions--Michigan--Detroit--21st century.
Generation Y--Biography.
Detroit (Mich.)--Biography.
Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.
F574.D453 / P55 2017
307.3/4160977434
A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Five hundred dollar house in Detroit Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city by Drew Philp. - xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Prologue: best bid -- Raw material -- Clapboard siding -- Someone else's trash -- Windows and doors and airplanes -- A fence between me and the world -- Load bearing walls -- The furnace -- A knock on the door -- A chimney to the sky -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home.
"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
9781476797984 9781476797991
2016046283
Philp, Drew--Homes and haunts--Michigan--Detroit.
Dwellings--Remodeling--Michigan--Detroit.
Urban renewal--Citizen participation.--Michigan--Detroit
Subculture--Michigan--Detroit.
Community development--Michigan--Detroit.
Working class whites--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
African Americans--Social conditions--Michigan--Detroit--21st century.
Generation Y--Biography.
Detroit (Mich.)--Biography.
Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.
F574.D453 / P55 2017
307.3/4160977434