Gordon Young is an American journalist and educator based in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, who writes about

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

issues and the problems facing deindustrialized cities and towns, especially his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He is a senior lecturer in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University and has lived in San Francisco since 1996. His book ''Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City'' was named a Michigan Notable Book and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Michael Moore praised ''Teardown'' as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." Young's journalism work has appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Slate'', ''Washington City Paper'', ''Next City'', ''Belt Magazine'', ''Utne Reader'', the ''San Jose Mercury-News'' and numerous other publications. He publishes the blog ''Flint Expatriates''. His writing is also featured in "Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology" and "Dispatches from the Rust Belt: The Best of Belt Year One."

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