TEARDOWN: MEMOIR OF A VANISHING CITY
Book ID/图书代码： 03830514B71506
English Summary/英文概要： After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels, but is now one of the country’s most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion, speculators scoop up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson is often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification. Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of a once-thriving city still fighting - despite overwhelming odds - to rise from the ashes. He befriends a rag-tag collection of urban homesteaders and die-hard locals who refuse to give up as they try to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons for cities all over the world. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often painfully funny, "Teardown" reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在三藩住了15年后，记者戈登•扬对自己位于老工业区的家乡产生了思念：弗林特，密歇根州，迈克尔穆尔的纪录片《大亨与我》的“明星”——通用汽车公司的发源地。希望重新发现和帮助曾经有着世界上最高人均收入水平但现在是该国最贫困和最危险的城市，他带着买房子的打算回到了弗林特。他发现这是一个充满了明显的反差和戏剧性的故事的地方，这里脱衣舞者能买得起豪华宅邸，投机者在易趣网上捞取十几所便宜房子而且纵火往往是社区美化的最快路线。巧妙地融合了个人回忆录，历史探究以及对弗林特居民的访谈，扬构建了一个曾经繁荣现在仍然在战斗——尽管又压倒性的优势——从废墟中崛起的充满活力的故事。他与一个在他们试图将弗林特转变成一个更小更绿化的城市的过程中，拒绝放弃的下层社会的顽固的当地农场主成了朋友，该城市的转变为世界各地的城市提供了教训。强硬的，深刻的和有趣的，《拆卸》提醒我们，城市最终由人民而不是政治或经济。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：一个读了《拆卸》的人可能会惊叫：“我，我，我！多么可怕的小镇！感谢上帝，我不住在那里！“噢，但你住在那里。正如《大亨和我》中描述的一样，20世纪80年代的弗林特是最终波及每一个美国社区的裁员浪潮的先行者，2013年戈登•扬笔下的弗林特在书中被描绘的如此深刻，因为如此深刻，在这本书中所描绘的，是给你们关于什么在等着你的最新的警告——不管你生活在哪里——在接下来的十年里。你的城市和弗林特之间的唯一区别是死神首先拜访了我们。一切都在《拆卸》中，一个曾经伟大的美国城市最后无比疯狂的的辉煌历史。——迈克尔•穆尔，导演，作家，活动家
One can read Teardown and go ’My, my, my! What a horrid town! Thank God I don’t live there!’ Oh, but you do. Just as the ’Roger & Me Flint’ of the 1980s was the precursor to a wave of downsizing that eventually hit every American community, Gordon Young’s Flint of 2013, as so profoundly depicted in this book, is your latest warning of what’s in store for you ― all of you, no matter where you live ― in the next decade. The only difference between your town and Flint is that the Grim Reaper just likes to visit us first. It’s all here in Teardown, a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once great American city. - Michael Moore, filmmaker, author, activist
About the Author/作者介绍： 戈登•扬在通用汽车公司的发源地——密歇根的弗林特长大，在那里他的儿时成就包括学会了平行停泊家庭中巨大的Buick Electra225。好不容易与当地天主教学校的修女停战后，他继续在密苏里堪萨斯大学学习新闻学，在诺丁汉大学学习英语文学。他的作品刊登在纽约时报，Slate，Utne Reader等杂志和其他出版物上。扬发表了”弗林特的移民“，这是一个自2007年开始就专为汽车城市的居民写作的博客。他是圣克拉拉大学通信系的高级讲师。Gordon Young grew up in Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors, where his accomplishments included learning to parallel park the family’s massive Buick Electra 225. After reaching an uneasy truce with the nuns in the local Catholic school system, he went on to study journalism at the University of Missouri and English literature at the University of Nottingham. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Utne Reader, and numerous other publications. Young has published Flint Expatriates, a blog for the long-lost residents of the Vehicle City, since 2007. He is a senior lecturer in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University and lives in San Francisco.
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