Gordon Young (journalist)

Gordon Young is an American journalist and educator based in San Francisco, California, who writes about urban planning 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^[1] and has lived in San Francisco since 1996.

His book Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City^[2] was named a Michigan Notable Book^[3] and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction.^[4] Michael Moore praised Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city."^[5]

Young's journalism work has appeared in The New York Times,^[6] Politico,^[7] Slate,^[8] Washington City Paper, Next City, Belt Magazine, Utne Reader, the San Jose Mercury-News and numerous other publications. He publishes the blog Flint Expatriates.^[9] His writing is also featured in "Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology" and "Dispatches from the Rust Belt: The Best of Belt Year One."^[10]

References

1. Young, Gordon. "Senior Lecturer". Santa Clara University Communication Department. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
2. Young, Gordon (2013). Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City (Hardback ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 288. ISBN 0520270525.
3. "Michigan Notable Books". Lansing: Library of Michigan. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
4. "33rd Annual Northern California Book Awards". Poetry Flash. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
5. "UM-Flint to Host Author of "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City"". UM-Flint News. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
6. Young, Gordon. "International Students Find the American Dream ... in Flint". The New York Times. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
7. Young, Gordon. "Thanks for Paying Attention to Flint. What Took You So Long?". Politico. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
8. Young, Gordon. "Recently by Gordon Young". Slate. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
9. Young, Gordon. "Flint Expatriates". Flint Expatriates. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
10. Young, Gordon (2014). Dispatches from the Rust Belt: The Best of Belt Magazine. Cleveland: Belt Publishing. p. 220. ISBN 978-0985944179. Retrieved January 12, 2023.