Making a better world : public housing, the Red scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles

Don Parson; foreword by Kevin Starr

With sharp historical perspective, Making a Better World traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city's built environment. Don Parson's examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current national crisis in providing shelter for low-income Americans

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Year of publication:	c2005
Authors:	Parson, Donald Craig
Publisher:	[Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing, distributor] Minneapolis, Minn : University of Minnesota Press
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xx, 289 p) ill., maps
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-266) and index Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Of Politics, Public Housing Projects, and the Modern City; 1. The New Day of Decent Housing: Building a Public Housing Program; 2. Homes for Heroes: Public Housing during World War II; 3. David and Goliath: The Struggle to Expand the Public Housing Program; 4. The "Headline-Happy Public Housing War": Public Housing and the Red Scare; 5. "Old Town, Lost Town, Shabby Town, Crook Town": Bunker Hill and the Modern Cityscape; 6. This Modern Marvel: Chavez Ravine and the Politics of Modernism Conclusion: "Thus the Sixties Reap the Folly of the Fifties"Chronology of Public Housing Events in Los Angeles; Appendix A: The File on Frank Wilkinson; Appendix B: Sources; Notes; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-8166-4370-9 ; 0-8166-4369-5 ; 978-0-8166-4369-1
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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