Detroit's Grand River & Greenfield Neighborhood
Detroit's Grand River & Greenfield Neighborhood

Author: Joseph Mccauley

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781540236326

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Grand River Avenue and Greenfield Road marked the center of a community bustling with retail, recreation, faith, and civic pride during the 1950s. Once a rural farming village, the neighborhood gained popularity following the World War II housing boom. New schools were built, local businesses filled storefronts, and the area prospered for 20-plus years until suburban life, facilitated by new superhighways, beckoned white, middle-class residents and business owners to abandon life in the city. Like a microcosm of Detroit, the neighborhood echoed the trend commonly called white flight. Today, strip malls have replaced national retailers and once well-manicured homes are in disrepair; however, another wave of dramatic change is promised as the city targets the area for urban renewal.

Grand River Avenue
Grand River Avenue

Author: Jon Milan and Gail Offen

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467112127

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Grand River Avenue details the history of this historical Michigan roadway, which has served as a footpath, wagon rut, and ultimately a two-lane highway. Grand River Avenue, or Michigan US-16 as it was ultimately designated, is one of Michigan's true Blue Highways--an original two-lane, blacktop road still serving as a direct path through roadside America. Originally a Native American trail, this ancient path has been a westbound route from the Straits of Detroit to the eastern shores of Lake Michigan for more than 1,000 years. Over time, it has served as a footpath, horse trail, wagon rut, stagecoach route, plank road, and ultimately a two-lane highway that gave some of America's earliest motorists their first taste of long-distance automobile travel.

Embracing a City, The Kresge Foundation in Detroit: 1993-2017
Embracing a City, The Kresge Foundation in Detroit: 1993-2017

Author: Tony Proscio

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0983965498

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The book provides a behind-the-scenes look into the unlikely partnerships, unique collaborations, variety of financial tools and bold bets led by The Kresge Foundation during a 13-year period in Detroit to foster a sustainable and equitable recovery for the city and all of its residents. The authors originally imagined the book contents as four individual case studies. In preparation, they performed an exhaustive review of Kresge Foundation historical documents and a comprehensive scan of media coverage and journalistic commentary about Detroit’s recovery. They also conducted more than four dozen interviews with the individuals who participated in, witnessed or otherwise impacted the changing tide in the city of Detroit during this period. Once assembled, the authors agreed that—assembling together in context with one another – the content could serve as an important snapshot of some of the positive forces and extreme undercurrents at play in Detroit during this extraordinary time in the city.

Detroit Northwest Heydays 1918–2001
Detroit Northwest Heydays 1918–2001

Author: William Phillips

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-03-29

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1796010847

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This is where the KKK and Back Legion congregated in the 1920s and 1930s. This is where America’s most racist suburb bread. By centuries end, this is where the white extremists control the city some sixty miles out. This is a racist hell. These are the Detroit Northwestern Heydays.

Detroit Noir
Detroit Noir

Author: E.J. Olsen

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1933354399

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Presents short stories about Detroit with noir and crime fiction by writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Boland, Peter Markus, and Lolita Hernandez.

Detroit After Bankruptcy
Detroit After Bankruptcy

Author: Joe Darden

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1529235677

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Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and policy-makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. This book analyses whether Detroit’s patterns of inequality on race and class lines still exist and whether the city is truly reversing its decline.

Revolution Detroit
Revolution Detroit

Author: John Gallagher

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2013-03-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0814338577

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Readers interested in urban studies and recent Detroit history will appreciate this thoughtful assessment of the best practices and obvious errors when it comes to reinventing our cities.