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Teardown - Memoir of a Vanishing City (Hardcover)
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Teardown - Memoir of a Vanishing City (Hardcover)
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After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young
found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan,
the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore
documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place
that once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income
levels, but is now one of the country's most impoverished and
dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying
a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic
stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion,
speculators scoop up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson
is often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification.
Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and
interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of
a once-thriving city still fighting - despite overwhelming odds -
to rise from the ashes. He befriends a rag-tag collection of urban
homesteaders and die-hard locals who refuse to give up as they try
to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons
for cities all over the world. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often
painfully funny, "Teardown" reminds us that cities are ultimately
defined by people, not politics or economics.
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