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From tenements to the Taylor homes : in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America
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From tenements to the Taylor homes : in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America

Author: John F Bauman; Roger Biles; Kristin M Szylvian
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John F Bauman; Roger Biles; Kristin M Szylvian
ISBN: 0271020121 9780271020129 027102013X 9780271020136
OCLC Number: 42716654
Description: xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: From better dwellings to better neighborhoods: the rise and fall of the first national housing movement / Robert B. Fairbanks -- The garden city and planned industrial suburbs: housing and planning on the eve of World War I / John S. Garner -- "No idea of doing anything wonderful": the labor-crisis origins of national housing policy and the reconstruction of the working-class community, 1917-1919 / Eric J. Karolak -- Shaping housing and enhancing consumption: Hoover's interwar housing policy / Janet Hutchison -- The federal government and housing during the Great Depression / Gail Radford -- The federal housing program during World War II / Kristin M. Szylvian -- Public housing and the postwar urban renaissance, 1949-1973 / Roger Biles -- The other "subsidized housing": federal aid to suburbanization, 1940s-1960s / Thomas W. Hanchett -- Why they built Pruitt-Igoe / Alexander von Hoffman -- Choosing segregation: federal housing policy between Shelley and Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Planned destruction: the interstates and central city housing / Raymond A. Mohl -- Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and housing policy in the age of limits / John F. Bauman.
Responsibility: edited by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian.

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