Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing - Couverture souple

Rodriguez, Akira Drake

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820359521 ISBN 13 : 9780820359526

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2021

Synopsis

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 touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among Black women. Urban revitalization policies target public housing residents by demolishing public housing towers and dispersing poor (Black) residents into new, deconcentrated spaces in the city via housing choice vouchers and other housing-based tools of economic and urban development. Diverging Space for Deviants establishes alternative functions for public housing developments that would necessitate their existence in any city. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income residents—a necessity as wealth inequality in cities increases—public housing developments function as a necessary political space in the city, one of the last remaining frontiers for citizens to engage in inclusive political activity and make claims on the changing face of the state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

AKIRA DRAKE RODRIGUEZ is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design. She received her PhD in planning and public policy from Rutgers University. She lives with her husband and son in Philadelphia, PA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820359521
• ISBN 13: 9780820359526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
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