Purging the poorest : public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities

The Resource Purging the poorest : public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities

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Purging the poorest : public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities

Title remainder

public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities

Statement of responsibility

Lawrence J. Vale

Language

eng

Summary

"In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country's first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale's groundbreaking history of these "twice-cleared" communities provides unprecedented 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. Vale offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing residents, and reconsiders the role of design and designers."--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

ICU/DLC

Dewey number

363.5/850977311

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HD7288.78.U5

LC item number

V35 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Historical studies of urban America

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