Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities - Couverture souple

Livre 36 sur 82: Historical Studies of Urban America

Vale, Lawrence J.

 
9780226012452: Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
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ISBN 10 : 022601245X ISBN 13 : 9780226012452
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.”


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.


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À propos de l?auteur

Lawrence J. Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT. His many books include three prize-winning volumes: Architecture, Power, and National Identity; From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors;and Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022601245X
ISBN 13 
9780226012452
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
446
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226012315: Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

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ISBN 10 :  022601231X ISBN 13 :  9780226012315
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013
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