A $500 House in Detroit

A $500 House in Detroit
Author: Drew Philp
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147679801X

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 difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in Detroit is Philp’s raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and room by room. “Philp is a great storyteller…[and his] engrossing” (Booklist) tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city’s vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare. Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit “shines [in its depiction of] the ‘radical neighborliness’ of ordinary people in desperate circumstances” (Publishers Weekly). This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come.

Lost in Michigan

Lost in Michigan
Author: Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher: Huron Photo
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 9780999433201

Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.

Spectacular Homes of Michigan

Spectacular Homes of Michigan
Author: Brian G. Carabet
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781933415161

This impressive showcase of the top interior designers in Michigan features Greater Detroit, Grand Rapids, and the upscale communities along the Great Lakes' shores.

Michigan's Lumbertowns

Michigan's Lumbertowns
Author: Jeremy W. Kilar
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814320730

Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.

Mid-Michigan Modern

Mid-Michigan Modern
Author: Susan J. Bandes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2016
Genre: Architecture and society
ISBN: 9781611862171

"In this new expanded edition, Susan J. Bandes adds descriptions of additional buildings and discusses projects by ten additional architects"--

Michigan

Michigan
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118649753

The fifth edition of Michigan: A History of the GreatLakes State presents an update of the best college-level surveyof Michigan history, covering the pre-Columbian period to thepresent. Represents the best-selling survey history of Michigan Includes updates and enhancements reflecting the latesthistoric scholarship, along with the new chapter ‘ReinventingMichigan’ Expanded coverage includes the socio-economic impact of tribalcasino gaming on Michigan’s Native American population;environmental, agricultural, and educational issues; recentdevelopments in the Jimmy Hoffa mystery, and collegiate andprofessional sports Delivered in an accessible narrative style that is entertainingas well as informative, with ample illustrations, photos, andmaps Now available in digital formats as well as print

The Michigan Alumnus

The Michigan Alumnus
Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
Total Pages: 812
Release: 1968
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.