Main entry:

Parson, Donald Craig.

Title & Author:

Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles / Don Parson ; foreword by Kevin Starr.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.

Description:

xx, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-266) and index.
The new day of decent housing : building a public housing program -- Homes for heroes : public housing during World War II -- David and Goliath : the struggle to expand the public housing program -- The "headline-happy public housing war" : public housing and the Red Scare -- "Old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town" : Bunker Hill and the modern cityscape -- This modern marvel : Chavez Ravine and the politics of modernism.

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ISBN:

0816643695 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816643691 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816643709 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780816643707 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public housing California Los Angeles History.
Logement social Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Public housing.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History.
California Los Angeles.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240505
Call No.: BIB 170435
Status: Available