City of Broken Dreams: Myth-Making, Nationalism and the University in an African Motor City

by Leslie J Bank and Leslie J. Bank

What role should universities have in revitalizing rust-belt motor cities left to decay by economic and political transformation? In City of Broken Dreams, author Leslie J Bank addresses this question through a detailed case study of East London, a city in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Here, as in American motor cities like Detroit and Flint, the car's cultural power and association with the endless possibilities of modernity lie at the heart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863457
• ISBN13: 9781611863451
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"