Housing and the Democratic Ideal : : The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams / / A. Henderson.
Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public"...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia History of Urban Life
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Intellectuals, Housing Policies, and State Expansion
- 1. Immigration and Community in the Expanding Metropolis
- 2. Law, Real Estate, and Praxis
- 3. From Tenement Laws to Housing Authorities: Social Provision and the New Deal State
- 4. Vision and Reality: Implementing Policy on the Local Level
- 5. The Practitioner as Scholar: Urban Studies and the Conflict Between "Land" and "Industry"
- 6. Federal Housing Policies and the Problem of a "Business Welfare State"
- 7. "The Walls of Stuyvesant Town": Urban Redevelopment and the Struggle Between Public and Private Power
- 8. The Quest for Open Housing: Racial Discrimination and the Role of the State
- 9. Cold War, the United Nations, and "Technical Assistance"
- 10. Urban Renewal, the "Perversion" of Social Reform, and Home Ownership for the Poor
- 11. "When the Grey Mist Subsides"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index