Making a Better World

Name: Making a Better World
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9780816643707
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Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles

Autor: Don Parson

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During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public hou...

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Autor

Don Parson

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2005

Pagini

312

EAN

9780816643707

ISBN

0816643709

Enbook ID

04729671

Editura

University of Minnesota Press

Greutate

414

Dimensiuni

152 x 226 x 17

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During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surrounding World War II, it had been a popular New Deal program, viewed as a force for positive social change and supported by a broad coalition of civic, labor, religious, and community organizations. Socially conscious architects and planners developed innovative and livable projects that embodied the latest theories in urban design. With sharp historical perspective, Making a Better World traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city's built environment. In the caustic political atmosphere of Joseph McCarthy's America, public housing opponents accused the city's housing authority of communist infiltration, effectively eliminating the left from debates over the city's development. In place of public housing, conservative forces promoted a pro-private growth agenda that redefined urban renewal and reshaped modern Los Angeles. No conventional public housing projects have been constructed in Los Angeles since 1955. In this era of skyrocketing housing prices, especially in urban areas, Don Parson's examination not only gives us the recent history of a city, but also opens up a new debate on a current national crisis in providing shelter for low-income Americans.

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