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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City,Used
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After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the star of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the worlds highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer could afford a lavish mansion, speculators scooped up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson was often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification.Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of a oncethriving city still fightingdespite overwhelming oddsto rise from the ashes. He befriends a ragtag collection of urban homesteaders and diehard locals who refuse to give up as they try to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons for cities all over the world. Hardhitting, insightful, and often painfully funny, Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.
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