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Living Detroit - Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis (Paperback)
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Living Detroit - Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
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In Living Detroit, Brandon M. Ward argues that environmentalism in
postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis,
deindustrialization, and the fate of the city. Tying the diverse
stories of environmental activism and politics together is the
shared assumption environmental activism could improve their
quality of life. Detroit, Michigan, was once the capital of
industrial prosperity and the beacon of the American Dream. It has
since endured decades of deindustrialization, population loss, and
physical decay - in short, it has become the poster child for the
urban crisis. This is not a place in which one would expect to
discover a history of vibrant expressions of environmentalism;
however, in the post-World War II era, while suburban, middle-class
homeowners organized into a potent force to protect the natural
settings of their communities, in the working-class industrial
cities and in the inner city, Detroiters were equally driven by the
impulse to conserve their neighborhoods and create a more livable
city, pushing back against the forces of deindustrialization and
urban crisis. Living Detroit juxtaposes two vibrant and growing
fields of American history which often talk past each other:
environmentalism and the urban crisis. By putting the two subjects
into conversation, we gain a richer understanding of the
development of environmental activism and politics after World War
II and its relationship to the crisis of America's cities. This
book will be of great interest to students and scholars in
environmental, urban, and labor history.
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