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Purging the Poorest - Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Paperback)
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Purging the Poorest - Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Paperback)
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. 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 two of America's most famous housing projects:
Chicago's Cabrini-Green and Atlanta's Techwood/Clark Howell Homes.
Vale offers the novel concept of "design politics" to 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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