UID:
almahu_9949597524702882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 428 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9780226012599 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Historical studies of urban America
Content:
This study offers a new narrative of the 75-year struggle to house the American 'deserving poor'. In the 1930s Atlanta and Chicago demolished their slums and established some of the country's first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. This history of these 'twice-cleared' communities provides detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of America's most famous housing projects: Chicago's Cabrini-Green and Atlanta's Techwood/Clark Howell Homes. The book offers the concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780226012315
Language:
English
URL:
Chicago scholarship online
