Making a better world
Subtitle: public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
By: Don Parson ; foreword by Kevin Starr.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The new day of decent housing : building a public housing program; title: Homes for heroes : public housing during World War II; title: David and Goliath : the struggle to expand the public housing program; title: The "headline-happy public housing war" : public housing and the Red Scare; title: "Old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town" : Bunker Hill and the modern cityscape; title: This modern marvel : Chavez Ravine and the politics of modernism.