Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

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Lawrence J. Vale

Purging the Poorest

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Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Lawrence J. Vale

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English

University of Chicago Press
15 April 2013

Architecture; Homelessness; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a

signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly

oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.” In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago,

demolished their slums and established some of this country’s first

public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in

clearing public housing itself. Vale’s groundbreaking history of these

“twice-cleared” communities provides unprecedented detail about the

development, decline, and redevelopment of two of America’s most famous

housing projects: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green and Atlanta’s Techwood /Clark

Howell Homes. Vale offers the novel concept of design politics to

show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in

thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and

in-depth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of

public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing residents,

and reconsiders the role of design and designers.

By: Lawrence J. Vale
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780226012452
ISBN 10: 022601245X
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 15 April 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lawrence J. Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books include three prize-winning volumes: Architecture, Power, and National Identity; From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors; and Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods.

Reviews for Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Purging the Poorest advances a fresh and convincing periodization of the history of American public housing that illuminates clear patterns in the program's convoluted past. Lawrence J. Vale's treatment of this subject is the most original and significant I have read. (Gail Radford, author of Modern Housing for America)