American Project : : The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto / / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.
High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gan...
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