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Homeless : poverty and place in urban America /
This book explores the efforts of private and public institutions to solve the problem of homelessness by tracing the rise and fall of skid rows in America through the lens of New York's Bowery. Crowded onto skid rows, the homeless lived apart from the middle classes, who saw them as an aberran...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The challenge of the Depression
- A new deal for the homeless
- Skid Row in an era of plenty
- Urban renewal and the challenge of homelessness
- Operation Bowery and social scientific inquiry
- The end of the skid-row era
- Conclusion : whither the homeless.