Screen LibraryHomeless : poverty and place in urban america /
Homeless explores the efforts of private and public institutions to solve the problem of homelessness by tracing the rise and fall of skid rows in America through the lens of New York's Bowery. Crowded onto skid rows, the homeless lived apart from the middle classes, who saw them as an aberrant...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Politics and culture in modern america
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208269 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812208269.jpg |
| Summary: |
Homeless explores the efforts of private and public institutions to solve the problem of homelessness by tracing the rise and fall of skid rows in America through the lens of New York's Bowery. Crowded onto skid rows, the homeless lived apart from the middle classes, who saw them as an aberrant population. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 21 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208269 |
| Index Number: | HV4506 |
| CLC: | D771.28 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Challenge of the Depression -- 2. A New Deal for the Homeless -- 3. Skid Row in an Era of Plenty -- 4. Urban Renewal and the Challenge of Homelessness -- 5. Operation Bowery and Social Scientific Inquiry -- 6. The End of the Skid-Row Era -- Conclusion: Whither the Homeless -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |