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A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp.

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Publisher	New York : Scribner, 2017.
Copyright	©2017

Description

xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

LOCATION	CALL NUMBER	VOL	BARCODE	LAST CHECKIN	STATUS
EI-Adult Collection	307.3416 PHI		30626003136013	12-09-19	AVAILABLE

Contents	Prologue: best bid -- Raw material -- Clapboard siding -- Someone else's trash -- Windows and doors and airplanes -- A fence between me and the world -- Load bearing walls -- The furnace -- A knock on the door -- A chimney to the sky -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home.
Summary	"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit.
	African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit.
	Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation.
	Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit.
	Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit.
	Working class white people -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography.
	Generation Y -- Biography.
	Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography.
	Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
Other title	Five hundred dollar house in Detroit
	Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
ISBN	9781476797984
	1476797986
	9781476797991
	1476797994

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