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  • A $500 House in Detroit

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    A $500 House in Detroit

    Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

    de Drew Philp ...
    Narrado por Jacques Roy ...

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    A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a ... Leer más

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  • Why Detroit Matters

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    Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger.Why Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, ... Leer más

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    A Gentleman in Moscow

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  • The Trouble with Brunch

    Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

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  • Indigenous in the City

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