Detroit, Race and Uneven Development

by Joe T. Darden, Richard Child Hill, Richard W. Thomas, et al.

Book Overview

Hub of the American auto industry and site of the celebrated Riverfront Renaissance, Detroit is also a city of extraordinary poverty, unemployment, and racial segregation. This duality in one of the mightiest industrial metropolises of twentieth-century North America is the focus of this study. Viewing the Motor City in light of sociology, geography, history, and planning, the authors examine the genesis of modern Detroit. They argue that the current...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877224854
• ISBN13: 9780877224853
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"