From tenements to the Taylor homes : in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America / edited by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauman, John F., 1938- editor.

Biles, Roger, 1950- editor.

Szylvian, Kristin M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy--United States--History.

Urban policy.

Housing policy--United States--History.

Housing policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression, the impact of post–World War II renewal policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan years.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chronology: American Housing in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: The Eternal War on the Slums

PART I The Roots of Federal Housing Policy

1 From Better Dwellings to Better Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of the First National Housing Movement

2 The Garden City and Planned Industrial Suburbs: Housing and Planning on the Eve of World War I

3 "No Idea of Doing Anything Wonderful": The Labor-Crisis Origins of National Housing Policy and the Reconstruction of the Working- Class Community, 1917-1919

4 Shaping Housing and Enhancing Consumption: Hoover's Interwar Housing Policy

5 The Federal Government and Housing During the Great Depression

6 The Federal Housing Program During World War II

PART II Federal Housing Policy in Postwar America

7 Public Housing and the Postwar Urban Renaissance, 1949-1973

8 The Other "Subsidized Housing": Federal Aid to Suburbanization, 1940s-1960s

9 Why They Built Pruitt-lgoe Alexander von Hoffman

10 Choosing Segregation: Federal Housing Policy Between Shelley and Brown

11 Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City Housing

12 Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and Housing Policy in the Age of Limits

Epilogue

Bibliographic Essay

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271072159

0271072156

OCLC:

1262308429