Diverging Space for Deviants : The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing /

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often tou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rodriguez, Akira Drake (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public housing.
Housing policy.
African Americans > Housing.
Noirs americains > Logement > Georgie (État) > Atlanta.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > Georgie (État) > Atlanta.
Logement social > Georgie (État) > Atlanta.
African Americans > Housing > Georgia > Atlanta.
Housing policy > Georgia > Atlanta.
Public housing > Georgia > Atlanta.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A new deal to plan the new south: the politics of Atlanta's public housing
  • University homes: the spatial uplift of a deviant slum
  • From production of place to production of space: spatial justice in Perry homes
  • Grady homes: scaling up Black participatory geographies
  • "What are we doing to help ourselves?": Atlanta's Black urban regime and the limits to tenant activism
  • Deviancy, demolition, and demobilization: the end of Atlanta's public housing

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