Detroit is no dry bones : the eternal city of the industrial age
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- ISBN: 9780472130115
- ISBN: 0472130110
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v, 295 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm - Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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Formatted Contents Note: | Camilo Vergara's Detroit / by Robert Fishman -- Game changers -- American acropolis: the end of an idea -- Urban fabric -- Traces fo past grandeur -- Neighborhood landmarks -- This is no Rome: ruins and desolate cityscapes -- New life for former banks -- To reach the lost: churches where everybody is somebody -- Spirits of motor city: folk signs and murals -- In Detroit, Jesus is the only star -- Business-oriented signs -- Celebrating black heroes and heroines -- "It has nothing to do with race": Snow White, Snow Green, Snow Brown -- "Gone but not forgotten": memorials -- "You all came here and just marked up our entire city" -- Brightmoor: the search for a Bucolic uptopia by the Rouge River -- African American artists: history, remembrance, turf -- Persistent blight, concentrated: an abbreviated street guide -- Inner-city billboards -- Extinguished neon signs -- Street vendors -- Doing business behind plexiglass -- Oases admist desolation: Detroit's new architecture -- "Farm city": replacing blight with beauty -- Detroiters -- "In the ghettohood": things get better slowly -- Conclusion -- Detroit's evolvoing ruins -- Giving back to the community -- No dry bones. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HN 80 .D6 V47 2016 | 30775305520984 | General Collection | Available | - |