Author: Detroit (Mich.). City Plan CommissionPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Toward a Greater Detroit--looking Ahead with the City Plan Commission
Author: Detroit (Mich.). City Plan CommissionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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For a Greater Detroit
Author: Hudson, J.L. Co. Greater and Better Detroit CommitteePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Facts & Figures about the Greater Detroit Area
Author: Greater Detroit Board of CommercePublisher:
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Category : Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Progress: Greater Detroit Today and Tomorrow
Author: Greater Detroit
Author: Mort CrimPublisher: Towery Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Detroit has always been a city in the making--a place of promise and change." So writes Mort Crim in Greater Detroit: Renewing the Dream as he explores the city's heritage of abundant opportunity and transformation. Here, in the Motor City, the American dream is reborn every day, making Detroit a place that is constantly reinventing itself. Accompanied by Susan VanDeRyt's stunning collection of high-quality images from the area's finest photographers, Crim shows the many ways that Detroit fulfills its legacy as a destination for those in search of a better life. The results are clear. Detroit now boasts the largest number of privately owned homes of any urban center in the nation, as well as a staunch work ethic and an unwavering sense of resilience in the face of adversity. Like the American dream itself, Detroit is about pride. Pride in being a distinctly American metropolis. Pride in the revitalized automotive industry that slumped in the 1980s but that is once again making Detroit the Automotive Capital of the World. Pride in the soaring downtown skyscrapers. And pride in the countless communitywide celebrations--Freedom Festival on the riverfront; the IndyCar race on Belle Isle; and the Gold Cup races on the Detroit River, the best-attended single sporting event in the nation. Detroit. Renewing and sustaining the American dream. As Mort Crim sums it up, Detroit is where Americans "across the centuries have come to improve their lot--to find the promised land." It is, indeed, the Renaissance City.--Publisher's description.
Greater Detroit Today and Tomorrow
Author: Detroit City Is the Place to Be
Author: Mark BinelliPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250039231
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
"The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native and Rolling Stone writer Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"--its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie--he tracks the signs of blight repurposed, from the school for pregnant teenagers to the killer ex-con turned street patroller, from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's wager on the Volt electric car and the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century"--
Detroit
Author: Neal ShinePublisher: Towery Pub
ISBN: 9781589670051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Toward a Center for Theological Studies
Author: Greater Detroit Study Commission on Theological EducationPublisher:
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Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages :
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Toward a Great Detroit
Author: Detroit (Mich.). City Plan CommissionPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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