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From tenements to the Taylor homes : in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America /
Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays exa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From better dwellings to better neighborhoods: the rise and fall of the first national housing movement / Robert B. Fairbanks
- The garden city and planned industrial suburbs: housing and planning on the eve of World War I / John S. Garner
- "No idea of doing anything wonderful": the labor-crisis origins of national housing policy and the reconstruction of the working-class community, 1917-1919 / Eric J. Karolak
- Shaping housing and enhancing consumption: Hoover's interwar housing policy / Janet Hutchison
- The federal government and housing during the Great Depression / Gail Radford
- The federal housing program during World War II / Kristin M. Szylvian
- Public housing and the postwar urban renaissance, 1949-1973 / Roger Biles
- The other "subsidized housing": federal aid to suburbanization, 1940s-1960s / Thomas W. Hanchett
- Why they built Pruitt-Igoe / Alexander von Hoffman
- Choosing segregation: federal housing policy between Shelley and Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch
- Planned destruction: the interstates and central city housing / Raymond A. Mohl
- Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and housing policy in the age of limits / John F. Bauman.