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Purging the Poorest - Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Hardcover, New)
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Purging the Poorest - Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Hardcover, New)
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
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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. Ina"Purging the Poorest," Lawrence J. Vale
offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house
the OC deserving poor.OCO
In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago,
demolished their slums and established some of this countryOCOs
first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led
the way in clearing public housing itself. ValeOCOs groundbreaking
history of these OC twice-clearedOCO communities provides
unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and
redevelopment of two of AmericaOCOs most famous housing projects:
ChicagoOCOs Cabrini-Green and AtlantaOCOs Techwood /Clark Howell
Homes. Vale offers the novel concept ofa"design politics"ato show
how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in
thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and
in-depth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of
public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing
residents, and reconsiders the role of design and designers.
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