Description: Motor City Green sheds light on the ways social and political history intersect with urban and environmental history as a new way to tell the history of Detroit.
Review Quotes: Joseph Stanhope Cialdella's fine book, Motor City Green, relates a surprising tale that is perhaps not so surprising. Across the 130-year rise and decline history of America's archetypal industrial city, Detroiters--even the most economically challenged among them, immigrants and African Americans--insisted on relationships of various kinds with the natural world.-- "The Michigan Historical Review"