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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities - Historical Studies of Urban America
Lawrence J. Vale
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities - Historical Studies of Urban America
Lawrence J. Vale
Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." This title offers the novel concept of "design politics" to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy.
384 pages, 63 halftones, 6 line drawings
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 15, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780226012452 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 448 |
Dimensions | 228 × 155 × 30 mm · 686 g |
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