Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing /

Blueprint for disaster : the unraveling of Chicago public housing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 380 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Series:	Historical studies of urban America Historical studies of urban America.
Subject:	Chicago Housing Authority -- History -- 20th century. Chicago Housing Authority. Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Public housing. Illinois -- Chicago. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11197195

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ISBN:	9780226360874 0226360873 9786612239670 6612239670 9780226360850 0226360857 9780226360867 0226360865
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-354) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago's public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.
Other form:	Print version: Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968- Blueprint for disaster. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009 9780226360850 0226360857
Standard no.:	9786612239670

Table of Contents:

What went wrong with public housing in Chicago?
The 1937 Housing Act revisited
Building the Chicago Housing Authority
Clearing Chicago's slums
The end of integration and the taming of the CHA
Designing high-rise disasters
Planning a social disaster
The loss of the working class
The tenants revolt
The Gautreaux case and the limits of judicial activism
The long road to rebirth
The unraveling of public housing in Chicago.