A $500 house in Detroit, rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city, by Drew Philp
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Label
A $500 house in Detroit, rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city, by Drew Philp
Language
eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A $500 house in Detroit
Oclc number
952647897
Responsibility statement
by Drew Philp
Sub title
rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
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
Table Of 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
resource.variantTitle
Five hundred dollar house in DetroitRebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit
- African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African American
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations
- HISTORY / Social History
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African
- Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Generation Y -- Biography
- Dwellings + Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Working class whites -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject15
- Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit
- African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African American
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations
- HISTORY / Social History
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African
- Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Generation Y -- Biography
- Dwellings + Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Working class whites -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography
- Content1
- Author1
- Related to1
- Mapped to1