Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

by Andrew R. Highsmith

Book Overview

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, signs were placed around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress," suggesting that the struggling metropolis could not move forward to greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball. Much more than a trite corporate slogan, the phrase encapsulates the operating ethos of the nation's metropolitan leadership from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022641955X
• ISBN13: 9780226419558
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"