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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes : In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America / ed. by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, Kristin M. Szylvian.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 24 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271072159
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  • 363.5/0973 21
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  • HD7293 .F76 2000
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology: American Housing in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction: The Eternal War on the Slums -- PART I The Roots of Federal Housing Policy -- 1 From Better Dwellings to Better Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of the First National Housing Movement -- 2 The Garden City and Planned Industrial Suburbs: Housing and Planning on the Eve of World War I -- 3 "No Idea of Doing Anything Wonderful": The Labor-Crisis Origins of National Housing Policy and the Reconstruction of the Working- Class Community, 1917-1919 -- 4 Shaping Housing and Enhancing Consumption: Hoover's Interwar Housing Policy -- 5 The Federal Government and Housing During the Great Depression -- 6 The Federal Housing Program During World War II -- PART II Federal Housing Policy in Postwar America -- 7 Public Housing and the Postwar Urban Renaissance, 1949-1973 -- 8 The Other "Subsidized Housing": Federal Aid to Suburbanization, 1940s-1960s -- 9 Why They Built Pruitt-lgoe Alexander von Hoffman -- 10 Choosing Segregation: Federal Housing Policy Between Shelley and Brown -- 11 Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City Housing -- 12 Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and Housing Policy in the Age of Limits -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Essay -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression, the impact of post-World War II renewal policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan years.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology: American Housing in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction: The Eternal War on the Slums -- PART I The Roots of Federal Housing Policy -- 1 From Better Dwellings to Better Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of the First National Housing Movement -- 2 The Garden City and Planned Industrial Suburbs: Housing and Planning on the Eve of World War I -- 3 "No Idea of Doing Anything Wonderful": The Labor-Crisis Origins of National Housing Policy and the Reconstruction of the Working- Class Community, 1917-1919 -- 4 Shaping Housing and Enhancing Consumption: Hoover's Interwar Housing Policy -- 5 The Federal Government and Housing During the Great Depression -- 6 The Federal Housing Program During World War II -- PART II Federal Housing Policy in Postwar America -- 7 Public Housing and the Postwar Urban Renaissance, 1949-1973 -- 8 The Other "Subsidized Housing": Federal Aid to Suburbanization, 1940s-1960s -- 9 Why They Built Pruitt-lgoe Alexander von Hoffman -- 10 Choosing Segregation: Federal Housing Policy Between Shelley and Brown -- 11 Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City Housing -- 12 Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and Housing Policy in the Age of Limits -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Essay -- Contributors -- Index

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Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression, the impact of post-World War II renewal policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan years.

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