Title: From tenements to the Taylor homes : in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America /
Authors: Bauman, John F., 1938-; Biles, Roger, 1950-; Szylvian, Kristin M.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Housing policy United States History.; Urban policy United States History.
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.