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Housing & the democratic ideal : the life and thought of Charles Abrams / A. Scott Henderson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00662279 | Recorded BooksSeries: Columbia history of urban lifePublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 347 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231505175
  • 9780231505178
Other title:
  • Housing and the democratic ideal
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Housing & the democratic ideal.DDC classification:
  • 363.5/092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • HD7293 .H464 2000eb
Online resources:
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.
Title is part of the collection: Rights, Action, and Social ResponsibilitySummary: -- W. Edward Orser, Urban History.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.

Print version record.

-- W. Edward Orser, Urban History.

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.

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