Demolition means progress: Flint, Michigan, and the fate of the American metropolis

Introduction

Part I: Company town. City building and boundary making ; From community education to neighborhood schools ; Jim Crow, GM Crow ; Suburban renewal ; The metropolitan moment

Part II: Fractured metropolis. "Our city believes in lily-white neighborhoods" ; Jim Crow in the era of civil rights ; Suburban crisis ; The battle over school desegregation ; "The fall of Flint"

Epilogue: "America is a thousand Flints."