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Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Creating the North...
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Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Creating the North...
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by June Manning Thomas
Sales Rank : 1074035
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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press March 20, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080185444X
ISBN-13: 978-0801854446
Product Dimensions:
10.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
"This is history at its best, showing how easy it is to keep following the profession's timeworn habits instead of assessing them on their merits. Thomas goes on to discuss the complex results of the federal 1949 housing act, the failure of 'conservation' programs to revive neighborhoods and stem white flight, the 1967 civil disturbances, and the legacy of Mayor Coleman Young. Her treatment of what in many ways is a terrible story remains unwaveringly thoughtful." -- Planning
Product Review
"This is an extremely well-conceived and well-executed assessment of planning in Detroit from the 1940s through the early 1990s. It not only gives the reader a richly textured portrait of planning's rocky ride during this tumultuous era, but it also helps to explain why city leaders proved unable to halt the process of urban decline, even though there were so many resources thrown at the problem. This book can become one of the important new books in planning history, urban history, African-American history, and urban studies." -- Christopher Silver, Virginia Commonwealth University
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