Purging the Poorest - Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Zusammenfassung Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." This title offers the novel concept of "design politics" to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence J. Vale, VALE LAWRENCE J
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9780226012315
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01231-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, ARCHITECTURE / General, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness