Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities by Vale, Lawrence J.
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities by Vale, Lawrence J.

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public...
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Author: Lawrence J. Vale
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities by Vale, Lawrence J.

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

$128.35
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities by Vale, Lawrence J.

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

$128.35
Author: Lawrence J. Vale
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor."
In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country's first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale's groundbreaking history of these "twice-cleared" communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of America's most famous housing projects: Chicago's Cabrini-Green and Atlanta's 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 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.


Author: Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/15/2013
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780226012452


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013

About the Author
Lawrence J. Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT. His many books include three prize-winning volumes: Architecture, Power, and National Identity; From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors;and Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods.
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