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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
By Philp, Drew
- ISBN
- 9781476797984 9781476798011
- Publisher
- Scribner
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Reviewed on February 1, 2017 | Cityscapes
Detroit is a city with a history intertwined with American manufacturing, once hosting a thriving automotive industry. Unfortunately, it has also had a massive departure of such major businesses, eliminating jobs as a result. Philp's first book highlights the stagnation, collapse, rise, and rebirth of Detroit; a city that has had "the greatest sea change in American culture since the 1960s." This is a story of the author'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
