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Author:

Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-

Title:

Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing / D. Bradford Hunt.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 380 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Public housing--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Chicago Housing Authority--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-354) and index.

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 public housing in Chicago.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

ISBN:

0226360857 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226360850 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)262429594

LCCN:

2009006297

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)