[PDF] Detroits Grand River Greenfield Neighborhood eBook

Author : Joseph McCauley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1467129836

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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."--Back cover.

Author : Aaron Foley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 099890418X

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Detroiters need to get to know their neighbors better. Wait ― maybe that should be, Detroiters should get to know their neighborhoods better. It seems like everybody thinks they know the neighborhoods here, but because there are so many, the definitions become too broad, the characteristics become muddled, the stories become lost. Edited by Aaron Foley, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook contains essays by Zoe Villegas, Drew Philip, Hakeem Weatherspoon, Marsha Music, Ian Thibodeau, and dozens of others.

Author : Brianne Turczynski
Publisher : History Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781540245892

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Poletown was a once vibrant, ethnically diverse neighborhood in Detroit. In its prime, it had a store on every corner. Its theaters, restaurants and schools thrived, and its churches catered to a multiplicity of denominations. In 1981, General Motors announced plans for a new plant in Detroit and pointed to the 465 acres of Poletown. Using the law of eminent domain with a quick-take clause, the city planned to relocate 4,200 residents within ten months and raze the neighborhood. With unprecedented defiance, the residents fought back in vain. In 2004, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the eminent domain law applied to Poletown was unconstitutional--a ruling that came two decades too late.

Author : Gail Olin Rodwan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Historic districts
ISBN : 9780692843581

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History of Sherwood Forest community in Detroit.

Author : Sidney Olson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814312247

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Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford—an American farm boy who became one of the greatest manufacturers of modern times and profoundly impacted the habits of American life. In Young Henry Ford, Sidney Olson dispels some of the myths attached to this automobile legend, going beyond the Henry Ford of mass production and the five-dollar day, and offers a more intimate understanding of Henry Ford and the time he lived in. Through hundreds of restored photographs, including some of Ford's own taken with his first camera, Young Henry Ford revisits an America now gone—of long days on the farm, travel by horse and buggy, and one-room schoolhouses. Some of the rare illustrations include the first picture of Henry Ford, photos from Edsel's childhood, snapshots of the interior and exterior of the Ford homestead, Clara and Henry's wedding invitation, and photos of the early stages of the first automobile.

Author : Camilo J. Vergara
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0472130110

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A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric

Author : Olivier Zunz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226994581

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Originally published in 1983, The Changing Face of Inequality is the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing industrialization. Zunz examines Detroit's evolution between 1880 and 1920 and discovers the ways in which ethnic and class relations profoundly altered its urban scene. Stunning in scope, this work makes a major contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century cities.