Screen LibraryPurging the poorest : public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities /
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Historical studies of urban America
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226012315 (cloth : alkaline paper) 022601231X (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226012452 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 022601245X (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HD7288 |
| CLC: | F299.712.7 |
| Call Number: | F299.712.7/V149 |
| Contents: | Public housing, design politics, and twice-cleared communities -- Public housing and private initiative : developing Atlanta's Techwood and Clark Howell homes -- Redeveloping Techwood and Clark Howell : the purges of progress -- Up from little hell : developing Chicago's Frances Cabrini homes -- Urban renewal and the rise of Cabrini-Green -- Staving off collapse : mediated violence and the beginning of Cabrini's end -- Bringing the Gold Coast to the slum : Cabrini-Green's redevelopment and the litigation of inclusion -- Conclusion : public housing and the margins of empathy. |