Blueprint for Disaster
The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
- Contents
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List of Illustrations
Introduction What Went Wrong with Public Housing in Chicago?
Chapter 1 The 1937 Housing Act Revisited
Chapter 2 Building the Chicago Housing Authority
Chapter 3 Clearing Chicago’s Slums
Chapter 4 The End of Integration and the Taming of the CHA
Chapter 5 Designing High-Rise Disasters
Chapter 6 Planning a Social Disaster
Chapter 7 The Loss of the Working Class
Chapter 8 The Tenants Revolt
Chapter 9 The Gautreaux Case and the Limits of Judicial Activism
Chapter 10 The Long Road to Rebirth
Conclusion The Unraveling of Public Housing in Chicago
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index
Urban History Association: Kenneth Jackson Award
Honorable Mention
Society for American City & Regional Planning History: Lewis Mumford Prize
Won
Geography: Urban Geography
History: Urban History
Political Science: Urban Politics
Sociology: Urban and Rural Sociology
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