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American Project - The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (Paperback, Revised)
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American Project - The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (Paperback, Revised)
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High-rise public housing developments were signature features of
the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing
temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects"
soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation
and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the
wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir
Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out,
and to salvage its troubled legacy. Based on nearly a decade of
fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, "American Project" is
the first comprehensive story of daily life in an American public
housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants,
gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an
intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and
the public have only viewed from a distance. Challenging the
conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling
book re-creates tenants' thirty-year effort to build a safe and
secure neighborhood: their political battles for services from an
indifferent city bureaucracy, their daily confrontation with
entrenched poverty, their painful decisions about whether to work
with or against the street gangs whose drug dealing both sustained
and imperiled their lives. "American Project" explores the
fundamental question of what makes a community viable. In his
chronicle of tenants' political and personal struggles to create a
decent place to live, Venkatesh brings us to the heart of the
matter.
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