Blueprint for disaster
Subtitle: the unraveling of Chicago public housing
By: D. Bradford Hunt.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226360850
Subjects: Chicago Housing Authority -- History -- 20th century; Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What went wrong with public housing in Chicago?; title: The 1937 Housing Act revisited; title: Building the Chicago Housing Authority; title: Clearing Chicago's slums; title: The end of integration and the taming of the CHA; title: Designing high-rise disasters; title: Planning a social disaster; title: The loss of the working class; title: The tenants revolt; title: The Gautreaux case and the limits of judicial activism; title: The long road to rebirth; title: The unraveling of public housing in Chicago.