Table of Contents: “…Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities -- Transforming postwar New York. …”
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Subjects: “…Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.…”
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Subjects: “…Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Doubly displaced : women, public housing, and spatial access after Katrina /…”

Table of Contents: “…Historic designation and the preservation of public housing /…”

Table of Contents: “…Unmixing French "national identity" -- Structured exclusion: public housing in the French outer city -- Transmitting a "common culture": symbolic violence realized -- Counterforces: educational inequality and relative resistance -- Beyond identity: Muslim girls and the politics of their existence -- Epilogue: and so it goes.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The old Boston and the new Boston -- To hell with urban renewal -- Community organizers and advocacy planners -- A rekindled civil rights movement -- From school reform to desegregation -- The conflict over the Vietnam conflict -- The media and the protest movements -- Mothers for adequate welfare -- The illusion of inclusion and assault by acronyms -- A new threat from newcomers; gentrification -- Do-it-yourself community development -- Public housing on trial -- The tenants' movement and rent control -- People before highways -- The mothers of Maverick Street -- Shadow boxing in the public garden -- Boston jobs for Boston residents -- The battle over busing -- Fighting for a fair share -- A downturn in activism -- Back to the neighborhoods -- Boston today.…”

Table of Contents: “…Clearing the slum called war -- Remaking the ethic of city rebuilding -- The mass home in the middle-class cityscape -- Culture and cold war in the making of Lincoln Center -- The battle of Lincoln Square -- Cold war public housing in the age of urban renewal -- Confronting the "mass way of life" -- Conclusion: under the sign of the white cross.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Suburbs as slums -- Transportation revolution and the erosion of the walking city -- Home, sweet home: the house and the yard -- Romantic suburbs -- Main line: elite suburbs and commuter railroads -- Time of the trolley -- Affordable homes for the common man -- Suburbs into neighborhoods: the rise and fall of municipal annexation -- New age of automobility -- Suburban development between the wars -- Federal subsidy and the suburban dream: how Washington changed the American housing market -- Cost of good intentions: the ghettoization of public housing in the United States -- Baby boom and the age of the subdivision -- Drive-in culture of contemporary America -- Loss of community in metropolitan America -- Retrospect and prospect.…”

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Table of Contents: “…"Arsenal of democracy" -- "Detroit's time bomb": race and housing in the 1940s -- "The coffin of peace": the containment of public housing -- "The meanest and the dirtiest jobs": the structures of employment discrimination -- "The damning mark of false prosperities": the deindustrialization of Detroit -- "Forget about your inalienable right to work": responses to industrial decline and discrimination -- Class, status, and residence: the changing geography of black Detroit -- "Homeowners' rights": white resistance and the rise of antiliberalism -- "United communities are impregnable": violence and the color line -- Crisis: Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America.…”