Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities - Historical Studies of Urban America - Lawrence J. Vale - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226012315 - April 15, 2013
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities - Historical Studies of Urban America


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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.


384 pages, 63 halftones, 6 line drawings

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 15, 2013
ISBN13 9780226012315
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 448
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   737 g

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