Making a better world : public housing, the Red scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles / Don Parson ; foreword by Kevin Starr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parson, Donald Craig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--California--Los Angeles--History.

Public housing.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--History.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; [Bristol : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With sharp historical perspective, Making a Better World traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city's built environment. Don Parson's examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current national crisis in providing shelter for low-income Americans.

Contents:

The new day of decent housing : building a public housing program

Homes for heroes : public housing during World War II

David and Goliath : the struggle to expand the public housing program

The "headline-happy public housing war" : public housing and the Red Scare

"Old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town" : Bunker Hill and the modern cityscape

This modern marvel : Chavez Ravine and the politics of modernism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-266) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9605-5

OCLC:

476095855