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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of TwiceCleared Communities (Historical Studies of Urban America),Used
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The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventyfiveyear struggle to house the deserving poor.In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this countrys first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vales groundbreaking history of these twicecleared communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of Americas most famous housing projects: Chicagos CabriniGreen and Atlantas Techwood /Clark Howell Homes. Vale offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and indepth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing residents, and reconsiders the role of design and designers.
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