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Modern Housing for America (Paperback)
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The basic shape of American federal policy in housing as in many
other areas, was determined during the New Deal, but not without
conflict among movements and intellectuals advocating alternative
directions. One of these was "modern housing" - a set of proposals
for a radical rethinking of homes and neighbourhoods. Supporters of
this approach hoped that a significant proportion of American homes
could be provided by a broadly targeted, noncommercial housing
sector, supported by the federal government. They urged
comprehensively planned neighbourhoods with generous public spaces,
a range of public services, and resident participation in design
and administration. While modern housing ideas failed to define the
long-term thrust of federal policy, they did influence a
short-lived programme of the Public Works Administration, seen in
the case studies of the Carl Mackley Houses of Philadelphia and
Harlem River houses of New York. The author concludes with a
chapter on the long-range impact of New Deal policy on American
politics and the legacy of the modern housing initiative for
contemporary public policy debates.
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