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Making a Better World : Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles /

With sharp historical perspective, Making a Better World traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city's built environment. Don Parson's examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Parson, Donald Craig (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing, distributor], 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The new day of decent housing : building a public housing program
  • Homes for heroes : public housing during World War II
  • David and Goliath : the struggle to expand the public housing program
  • The "headline-happy public housing war" : public housing and the Red Scare
  • "Old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town" : Bunker Hill and the modern cityscape
  • This modern marvel : Chavez Ravine and the politics of modernism.