Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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The building and management of public housing is frequently seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this can be a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to deal with the “deserving poor.”

In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established a few of this country’s first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the best way in clearing public housing itself. Vale’s groundbreaking history of these “twice-cleared” communities provides unprecedented detail in regards to the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of The usa’s most famous housing projects: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green and Atlanta’s Techwood /Clark Howell Homes. Vale offers the unconventional concept of design politics to turn how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in occupied with policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth 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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