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Demolition means progress : Flint, Michigan, and the fate of the American metropolis / Andrew R. Highsmith.

By: Series: Historical studies of urban AmericaPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: xvi, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226050058 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226419558 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 977.4/37 23
LOC classification:
  • F574.F62 H54 2015
Contents:
City building and boundary making -- From community education to neighborhood schools -- Jim Crow, GM Crow -- Suburban renewal -- The metropolitan moment -- "Our city believes in lily-white neighborhoods" -- Jim Crow in the era of civil rights -- Suburban crisis -- The battle over school desegregation -- "The fall of Flint".

City building and boundary making -- From community education to neighborhood schools -- Jim Crow, GM Crow -- Suburban renewal -- The metropolitan moment -- "Our city believes in lily-white neighborhoods" -- Jim Crow in the era of civil rights -- Suburban crisis -- The battle over school desegregation -- "The fall of Flint".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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