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Teardown : Memoir of a Vanishing City by Young, Gordon, 1966-; Young, Gordon, 1966- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 world's 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 once-thriving city still fighting—despite overwhelming odds—to rise from the ashes. He befriends a ragtag collection of urban homesteaders and die-hard 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. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often painfully

Who reads Teardown : Memoir of a Vanishing City?

Author

Young, Gordon, 1966-; Young, Gordon, 1966-

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520270527

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Sociology

Rating

3.9 / 5 (134 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14