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035			_a(OCoLC)859161011
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050		4	_aHV4506.N6 _bH73 2013
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082	0	4	_a362.5/92097471 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHoward, Ella _eautore
245	1	0	_aHomeless : _bPoverty and Place in Urban America / _cElla Howard.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2013]
264		4	_c©2013
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.) : _b21 illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aPolitics and Culture in Modern America
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tIntroduction -- _t1. The Challenge of the Depression -- _t2. A New Deal for the Homeless -- _t3. Skid Row in an Era of Plenty -- _t4. Urban Renewal and the Challenge of Homelessness -- _t5. Operation Bowery and Social Scientific Inquiry -- _t6. The End of the Skid-Row Era -- _tConclusion: Whither the Homeless -- _tNotes -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century.Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place. Maintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns.By midcentury, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty. Richly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aBowery (New York, N.Y. : Street).
650		0	_aHomelessness -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
650		0	_aHomelessness _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSkid row.
650		4	_aAmerican Studies.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
653			_aAmerican History.
653			_aAmerican Studies.
653			_aPolitical Science.
653			_aPublic Policy.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208269
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208269
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812208269/original
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