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rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city

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An edition of A $500 house in Detroit (2017)

A $500 house in Detroit

rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city

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  • 2 Want to read

"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.

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Scribner
Language
English
Pages
290

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Subjects

Urban renewal, Subculture, Generation Y, Remodeling, Working class whites, Community development, Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Citizen participation, Race relations, Social conditions, African Americans, Biography, Detroit (mich.), history, Detroit (mich.), social conditions, Dwellings, remodeling, Working class, united states, Michigan, biography, United states, race relations, Community development, united states, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit, Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit, Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation, Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit, Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit, Working class whites -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography, African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century, Generation Y -- Biography, Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography, Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations

People

Drew Philp

Places

Michigan, Detroit (Mich.), Detroit

Times

21st century

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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Apr 10, 2018, Scribner
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Cover of: $500 House in Detroit
$500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
2017, Scribner
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Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A $500 house in Detroit
A $500 house in Detroit: rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
2017, Scribner
in English
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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.

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Other Titles
Five hundred dollars house in Detroit, Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.3/4160977434
Library of Congress
F574.D453 P55 2017, F574.D453P55 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 290 pages
Number of pages
290

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27232183M
Internet Archive
500houseindetroi0000phil
ISBN 10
1476797986
ISBN 13
9781476797984
LCCN
2016046283
OCLC/WorldCat
952647897
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01HMXUX90

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