Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing
(2009)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
363.585/HUNT,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
x, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780226360850 (cloth alk. paper), 0226360857 (cloth alk. paper), 0226360857
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 Chicago public housing