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04425aam a2200577Ii 4500 001 C8337CBEAF6A11E9816CD31097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190726010032 008 190215t20192018nyu g b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0062235079 020 $a 9780062235077 040 $a VPW $b eng $e rda $c VPW $d VPW $d BDX $d YDX $d HAS $d IDLEW $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a n-us-il 050 14 $a HD7288.78.U52 $b C425 2019 082 04 $a 363.5/85/0977311 082 04 $a 977.3/11 100 1 $a Austen, Ben, $e author. 245 10 $a High-risers : $b Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing / $c Ben Austen. 246 30 $a Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing 250 $a First Harper paperbacks edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 384 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index. 505 00 $g Part three. $t The Chicago neighborhood of the future. $t Portrait of a Chicago slum -- $t The reds and the whites -- $t Catch-as-catch-can -- $t Warriors -- $t The mayor's pied-aÌ-terre -- $g Part two. $t Cabrini Green Harlem Watts Jackson ; $t Cabrini-Green rap -- $t Concentration effects -- $t This is my life -- $t Faith brought us this far -- $t How horror works -- $t Dantrell Davis Way -- $g Part three. $t Rotations on the land ; $t Cabrini mustard and turnip greens -- $t If not here. . . where? -- $t Transformations -- $t Old town, new town -- $t They came from the projects -- $t The people's public housing authority -- $t The Chicago neighborhood of the future. 520 $a Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America's public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex's demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation's effort to provide affordable housing to the poor--and what we can learn from those mistakes. 610 20 $a Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) $x History. 610 20 $a Cabrini-Green High Impact Program $x History. 650 0 $a Public housing $z Chicago $z Chicago $x History. 650 0 $a Low-income housing $z Chicago $z Chicago $x History. 650 0 $a Urban poor $x History. $z Chicago $z Chicago $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $z Chicago $z Chicago $x History. 650 0 $a Inner cities $z Chicago $z Chicago $y 20th century $x History. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x Race relations. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness. $2 bisacsh 610 27 $a Cabrini-Green High Impact Program. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01778008 610 27 $a Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01778009 650 7 $a African Americans $x Housing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799626 650 7 $a Inner cities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973711 650 7 $a Low-income housing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01003210 650 7 $a Public housing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01082447 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Urban poor $x Housing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01162523 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204048 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190726011837.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C8337CBEAF6A11E9816CD31097128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search