| Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City Subjects: Detroit Metropolitan Area. (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Detroit Metropolitan Area. (Mich.) -- Race relations -- 21st century; Suburban life -- Michigan -- Detroit M; Driving Detroit paints a portrait of metropolitan Detroit through an imaginative application of social science, song lyrics, poems, and oral history to explain why the city has fallen from industrial powerhouse into urban dysfunction. George Galster is Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University in Detroit. |