Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
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Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
University of Minnesota Press, c2005
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"Sources": p. 209-212
Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surrounding World War II, it had been a popular New Deal program, viewed as a force for positive social change and supported by a broad coalition of civic, labor, religious, and community organizations. Socially conscious architects and planners developed innovative and livable projects that embodied the latest theories in urban design. 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. In the caustic political atmosphere of Joseph McCarthy's America, public housing opponents accused the city's housing authority of communist infiltration, effectively eliminating the left from debates over the city's development. In place of public housing, conservative forces promoted a pro-private growth agenda that redefined urban renewal and reshaped modern Los Angeles. No conventional public housing projects have been constructed in Los Angeles since 1955. In this era of skyrocketing housing prices, especially in urban areas, 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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Contents Foreword Kevin StarrPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Of Politics, Public Housing Projects, and the Modern City1. The New Day of Decent Housing: Building a Public Housing Program2. Homes for Heroes: Public Housing During World War II3. David and Goliath: The Struggle to Expand the Public Housing Program4. The Headline-Happy Public Housing War: Public Housing and McCarthyism5. Old Town, Lost Town, Shabby Town, Crook Town: Bunker Hill and the Modern Cityscape6. This Modern Marvel: Chavez Ravine and the Politics of ModernismConclusion: Thus the Sixties Reap the Folly of the FiftiesChronology of Significant Public Housing Events in Los AngelesAppendix A: The File on Frank WilkinsonAppendix B: SourcesNotesIndex
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