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Purging the poorest : public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities /
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor."In the 1930s,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Historical studies of urban America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Public housing, design politics, and twice-cleared communities
- Public housing and private initiative : developing Atlanta's Techwood and Clark Howell homes
- Redeveloping Techwood and Clark Howell : the purges of progress
- Up from little hell : developing Chicago's Frances Cabrini homes
- Urban renewal and the rise of Cabrini-Green
- Staving off collapse : mediated violence and the beginning of Cabrini's end
- Bringing the Gold Coast to the slum : Cabrini-Green's redevelopment and the litigation of inclusion
- Conclusion : public housing and the margins of empathy.