Main entry:

Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-

Title & Author:

Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing / D. Bradford Hunt.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

x, 380 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-354) and index.
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.

Summary:

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago's public housing projects once housed residents who described them as paradise. So what went wrong? To answer this question, the author traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard Daley's 'Plan for Transformation'.

ISBN:

9780226360850 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226360857 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Chicago Housing Authority History 20th century.
Chicago Housing Authority
Public housing Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
Logement social Illinois Chicago Histoire 20e siècle.
Public housing
Wohnungsbau
Städtebau.
Behörde.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago.
Illinois.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Historical studies of urban America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262794
Call No.: BIB 193924
Status: Available