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Driving Detroit
Author | : George Galster |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2012-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780812206463 |
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For most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling population, moribund automobile industry, and alarmingly high murder rate. In Driving Detroit, author George Galster, a fifth-generation Detroiter and internationally known urbanist, sets out to understand how the city has come to represent both the best and worst of what cities can be, all within the span of a half century. Galster invites the reader to travel with him along the streets and into the soul of this place to grasp fully what drives the Motor City. With a scholar's rigor and a local's perspective, Galster uncovers why metropolitan Detroit's cultural, commercial, and built landscape has been so radically transformed. He shows how geography, local government structure, and social forces created a housing development system that produced sprawl at the fringe and abandonment at the core. Galster argues that this system, in tandem with the region's automotive economic base, has chronically frustrated the population's quest for basic physical, social, and psychological resources. These frustrations, in turn, generated numerous adaptations—distrust, scapegoating, identity politics, segregation, unionization, and jurisdictional fragmentation—that collectively leave Detroit in an uncompetitive and unsustainable position. Partly a self-portrait, in which Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories, Driving Detroit offers an intimate, insightful, and perhaps controversial explanation for the stunning contrasts—poverty and plenty, decay and splendor, despair and resilience—that characterize the once mighty city.
Why Detroit Matters
Author | : Brian Doucet |
Publsiher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781447327868 |
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The decline of Motor City, USA, may simply seem to be symptomatic of the decline of industrial cities across the world. But as this book shows us, what happens in Detroit matters for other cities globally--and always has. Why Detroit Matters bridges the academic and nonacademic worlds to examine how the story of Detroit offers powerful and universally applicable lessons on urban decline, planning, urban development, race relations, revitalization, and governance. Reflecting the diversity of the city, Why Detroit Matters includes contributions both from leading scholars and some of the city's most influential writers, planners, artists, and activists--including author George Galster, activist and author Grace Lee Boggs, author John Gallagher, and artist Tyree Guyton--who have all contributed chapters drawing on their rich experience and ideas. Also featuring edited transcripts of interviews with prominent visionaries who are developing innovative solutions to the challenges in Detroit, this book will be of keen interest to urban scholars and students in a variety of disciplines--from geography to economics, sociology, and urban and planning studies--as well as practitioners, including urban and regional planners, urban designers, community activists, and politicians and policy makers. Detroit, this book makes clear, could be a model of renewal and hope for the many cities suffering from similar problems, both in America and beyond.
Amphetamine Abuse Among Truck Drivers
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105045487019 |
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Future Directions for the European Shrinking City
Author | : William J.V. Neill,Hans Schlappa |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781317600862 |
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Urban shrinkage is rising to the top of the political agenda in Europe as more cities are shrinking in the prolonged economic downturn we encounter. Coupled with unprecedented budgetary austerity and rapidly ageing populations, ‘stagnating’ and ‘shrinking’ cities have emerged as a key challenge for policy and practice for decades to come. Local actors need to find new ways of collaborating across sectors, agencies and disciplines to unlock opportunities for interventions that mitigate the worst effects of urban shrinkage and long-term decline. Future Directions for the European Shrinking City focuses on policy and planning interventions that can be taken by municipalities and their local stakeholders to tackle stagnation and decline. With case studies from a range of European countries this book proposes ways to tackle shrinkage through governance, policy, planning, social, economic and management interventions. Edited by William J.V. Neill and Hans Schlappa, this book is ideally suited for policy makers and practitioners in urban planning, regeneration, and economic development dealing with pressing spatial and socio-economic issues on a European scale.
Driving With Music Cognitive Behavioural Implications
Author | : Dr Warren Brodsky |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2015-04-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781472411464 |
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Does listening to music while driving a car enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents? This is the first full-length text to explore the subject. A great deal of work has been done to investigate and reduce driver distraction and inattention, but this book is the first to focus on in-cabin aural backgrounds of music as a contributing factor to human error and traffic violations.
Annual Report
Author | : Michigan Railroad Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : UOM:39015073187158 |
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Joint Documents of the State of Michigan
Author | : Michigan. Legislature.. |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Michigan |
ISBN | : UOM:35112103839736 |
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Annual Report of the Michigan Railroad Commission
Author | : Michigan Railroad Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105128479834 |
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