Detroit: a biography
At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub-and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse-from nearly two million resid…
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- Full title :Detroit : a biography / Scott Martelle.
Summary
At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub-and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse-from nearly two million residents in 1950 to less than 715,000 some six decades later-resulted from a confluence of public policie.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Chicago Review Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 Online-Ressource (322 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781613748848, 1613748841
- oclc:on1056139379
- LC Classification:F574 .D49
- Dewey Decimal:305.896
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