Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing / D. Bradford Hunt

Author:: Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-
Published:: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description:: x, 380 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Contents:

What went wrong with public housing in Chicago? -- The 1937 Housing Act revisited -- Building the Chicago Housing Authority -- Clearing Chicago's slums -- The end of integration and the taming of the CHA -- Designing high-rise disasters -- Planning a social disaster -- The loss of the working class -- The tenants revolt -- The Gautreaux case and the limits of judicial activism -- The long road to rebirth -- The unraveling of Chicago public housing.

Subject(s):

Chicago Housing Authority—History—20th century
Public housing—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century

ISBN:

9780226360850 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226360857 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-354) and index.

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