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Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing / D. Bradford Hunt.
LIBRA HD7288.78.U52 C45 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago Housing Authority.
- Public housing--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Public housing.
- Chicago Housing Authority--History--20th century.
- History.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- x, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226360850
- 0226360857
- OCLC:
- 262429594
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