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Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing
- Title
- Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing / D. Bradford Hunt.
- Author
- Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HD7288.78.U52 C45 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 380 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Historical studies of urban America
- Uniform Title
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-354) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. What Went Wrong with Public Housing in Chicago? -- 1. The 1937 Housing Act Revisited -- 2. Building the Chicago Housing Authority -- 3. Clearing Chicago's Slums -- 4. The End of Integration and the Taming of the CHA -- 5. Designing High-Rise Disasters -- 6. Planning a Social Disaster -- 7. Thee Loss of the Working Class -- 8. The Tenants Revolt -- 9. The Gautreaux Case and the Limits of Judicial Activism -- 10. The Long Road to Rebirth -- Conclusion: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing.
- ISBN
- 9780226360850 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226360857 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009006297
- 40016847452
- OCLC
- ocn262429594
- 262429594
- SCSB-9039324
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries