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Purging the Poorest
Lawrence J. Vale
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Description for Purging the Poorest
Paperback. Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." This title offers the novel concept of "design politics" to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: AM; JFFB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ground breaking history of these "twice-cleared" communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of ... Read more
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 ground breaking history of these "twice-cleared" communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226012452
SKU
V9780226012452
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About Lawrence J. Vale
Lawrence J. Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.
Reviews for Purging the Poorest
"Purging the Poorest advances a fresh and convincing periodization of the history of American public housing that illuminates clear patterns in the program's convoluted past. Lawrence J. Vale's treatment of this subject is the most original and significant I have read." (Gail Radford, author of Modern Housing for America)"