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The war on slums in the Southwest : public housing and slum clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 /
"In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Cities in the Southwest or Southwestern Cities?; 2. The Public Housing Movement in the Southwest: Cities Battle the Slums before 1937; 3. Southwestern Cities, Slum Clearance, and the First Permanent Public Housing Program; 4. From World War II to the Housing Act of 1949: A Moratoriumon Slum Clearance and Public Housing for Low-Income Citizens; 5. The Solution Becomes a Problem: The Decline of the PublicHousing Movement after the Housing Act of 1949; 6. From Urban Redevelopment to Urban Renewal in the Southwest.
- Epilogue: Our War on Poverty, Not Yours on Slums; Appendix A: Social Scientists and the Changing Discourseon Slums and Poverty: A Brief Note; Appendix B: Public Housing Built in San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, and Dallas, 1935-1965; Appendix C: Occupation of Initial Tenants of Cuney Homes Public Housing in Houston; Appendix D: Total Number of Public Housing Units Built by Selected Cities by 1967; Notes; Index.