High rise stories
Subtitle: voices from Chicago public housing
By: compiled and edited by Audrey Petty ; foreword by Alex Kotlowitz ; assistant editor, Crystal Thomas ; research editor, Alex Carp ; advising editor, Peter Orner
Series: The voice of witness series; Voice of witness
Publisher: Voice of Witness; McSweeney's Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781938073373
Subjects: Poor; Social conditions; Interviews; Public housing; History
Description: In first-person accounts, former residents of Chicago's public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rise apartments and the tone of the community life and poverty levels that existed.
Notes: "The narratives in this book are the result of extensive oral history interviews with twenty-six men and women from Chicago, ... former public housing residents of Cabrini-Green, Rockwell Gardens, ABLA Homes, and Robert Taylor Homes, among others"--P. 25.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vital neighborhoods  -- by Alex Kotlowitz; title: On plans and transformations  -- by Audrey Petty; title: Dolores Wilson --; title: Dawn Knight --; title: Donnell Furlow --; title: Yusufu Mosley --; title: Eddie Leman --; title: Sabrina Nixon --; title: Paula Hawkins --; title: Sonovia Marie Petty --; title: Ashley Cortland --; title: Chandra Bell --; title: Tiffany Tucker --; title: Lloyd "Peter" Haywood -- -- Appendices.; title: Timeline of housing and civil rights in Chicago ;; title: The last tower  -- by Ben Austen ;; title: High rise architecture  -- by D. Bradford Hunt ;; title: Where are they now?  -- by the Chicago Housing Authority ;; title: Plan for transformation after ten years -- by Lawrence J. Vale and Erin Graves.