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.

This volume had its origins in an international symposium organised by the Cold Regions Research Centre, and held at Wilfrid Laurier University in November, 1999. The chapters are modified from a selection of the papers at the meeting, and reflect reviews and revisions in light of discussions then. The original idea for the meeting was to address certain questions that the organisers were encountering in their own work, and that we felt had received limited attention in the recent literature. The two broad issues we wanted to address were: the complex associations of actual landforms and processes in cold regions, and how the almost universal legacies of past, different cold environments of the late Quaternary affect these landscapes in the present. The former involves the problem of identifying landform and sediment complexes, and the interrelations of relevant processes. We sought to identify this in terms oflandform and sediment assemblages appropriate to regional and field-oriented concerns.

After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income levels but had become 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 could afford a lavish mansion, speculators scooped up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson was 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 ragtag 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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1925. Days of '49 is a super adventure; it ranks as one of the fine period novels of American literature. Against a background of teeming California in the days of gold, he moves a complicated cast of characters in gunplay and heart-play. Proud Spaniards, uncouth roughnecks with gentle hearts, smooth gentlemen with blackened hearts, ladies of vice and virtue are meshed in high adventure as the story of the early dash for treasure unfolds. An excellent story, but also the only fully documented, accurate account of the great California gold rush, as Mr. Young explains in a readable appendix, in which he points the real characters and events on which he has based his story.

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1925. Days of '49 is a super adventure; it ranks as one of the fine period novels of American literature. Against a background of teeming California in the days of gold, he moves a complicated cast of characters in gunplay and heart-play. Proud Spaniards, uncouth roughnecks with gentle hearts, smooth gentlemen with blackened hearts, ladies of vice and virtue are meshed in high adventure as the story of the early dash for treasure unfolds. An excellent story, but also the only fully documented, accurate account of the great California gold rush, as Mr. Young explains in a readable appendix, in which he points the real characters and events on which he has based his story.

1925. Days of '49 is a super adventure; it ranks as one of the fine period novels of American literature. Against a background of teeming California in the days of gold, he moves a complicated cast of characters in gunplay and heart-play. Proud Spaniards, uncouth roughnecks with gentle hearts, smooth gentlemen with blackened hearts, ladies of vice and virtue are meshed in high adventure as the story of the early dash for treasure unfolds. An excellent story, but also the only fully documented, accurate account of the great California gold rush, as Mr. Young explains in a readable appendix, in which he points the real characters and events on which he has based his story.