Main entry:

Galster, George C., 1948-

Title & Author:

Driving Detroit : the quest for respect in the Motor City / George Galster.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]

Description:

x, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Metropolitan portraits

Notes:
"1st ed."--CIP data.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Two daughters of Detroit -- Riding on the freeway: a riff on the place called Motown -- Sculpting Detroit: polity and economy trump geology -- From fort to Ford to ...? -- From Old World to Old South and Old Testament -- Who will feast on the fruits of labor? -- Turf wars -- Wrestling for pieces of the proletarian pie -- Feasting on fear -- The dynamics of decay, abandonment, and bankruptcy -- What drives Detroiters? -- From Motown to mortropolis -- Two daughters of Detroit revisited.

ISBN:

9780812244298 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
081224429X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780812222951
0812222954

Subject:

Suburban life Michigan Detroit.
Vie de la banlieue Michigan Detroit.
Economic history.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Suburban life.
Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions 21st century.
Detroit (Mich.) Economic conditions 21st century.
Detroit (Mich.) Race relations 21st century.
Michigan Detroit.

Added entries:

Metropolitan portraits.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286918
Call No.: BIB 227468
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available