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Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles Book

Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles
Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles, During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surro, Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles, During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surro, Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles
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  • Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles
  • Written by author Don Parson
  • Published by University of Minnesota Press, September 2005
  • During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surro
  • Chronicles the demise of public housing and social democratic reform.
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Contents Foreword Kevin StarrPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Of Politics, Public Housing Projects, and the Modern City 1. The New Day of Decent Housing: Building a Public Housing Program 2. Homes for Heroes: Public Housing During World War II 3. David and Goliath: The Struggle to Expand the Public Housing Program 4. The Headline-Happy Public Housing War: Public Housing and McCarthyism 5. Old Town, Lost Town, Shabby Town, Crook Town: Bunker Hill and the Modern Cityscape 6. This Modern Marvel: Chavez Ravine and the Politics of Modernism Conclusion: Thus the Sixties Reap the Folly of the Fifties Chronology of Significant Public Housing Events in Los Angeles Appendix A: The File on Frank Wilkinson Appendix B: Sources Notes Index


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