... importance to Chicago’s skyscraper development—as well as the limitations of the type when applied to complex social and cultural problems. Chicago’s public housing programs had their roots in the two waves of the Great Migration that bracketed World War II. Seeking refuge from the Jim Crow south and lured...

...This chapter examines how the transformation of public housing leads to neighborhood change by focusing on two Chicago neighborhoods: Cabrini Green on the Lower North Side and Lakefront Properties on the South Side. More specifically, it considers how each neighborhood was transformed over decades...

... organizations, allowing them not only to retain, but also to institutionalize, the signal achievements of rent control and public housing. Manhattan African Americans anti Communism class stratification Cohen Lizabeth feminism rent control slum clearance social democracy Bronx Brooklyn Greenwich...

...This chapter examines how tenants addressed three public policy questions: public housing, slum clearance, and civil rights. The rent-control statutes that tenants vigorously defended served to moderate prices that would otherwise be set higher by the law of supply and demand. However, many tenants...

...This chapter examines how the establishment of the St. Louis Civic Alliance for Housing rejuvenated Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway's vision of working-class citizenship and total person unionism. It begins with a background on the nine-month-long rent strike by public housing tenants in St...

...This chapter details the strategies involved in a 1951 campaign by a coalition of small property owners and anti-tax proponents who sought to halt creation of public housing through a ballot referendum. Leading the coalition is long-time civic activist and savings-and-loan official William Pieplow...

... Holsman Holsman Klekamp and Taylor Greenwald Herbert modernism poverty racial issues the Loop Mies van der Rohe Public Housing Sustainability Social Justice Urban Planning Charles F. Murphy died in late May 1985, two weeks after the State of Illinois Center’s opening. After starting...

... of World War II and discusses their positions on three public policy questions: public housing, slum clearance, and civil rights. It also examines the tenants' creation of labor-union cooperatives and their fight against “urban renewal”; the struggle over the rent strikes that erupted in Harlem and other...

... the formation of charter schools, demolished all high-rise family public housing in favor of mixed-income, new urbanist communities, adopted increasingly advanced police surveillance technologies, and privatized various public facilities through long-term agreements with private vendors. In a parallel fashion...

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... politics challenged his initiatives in public housing, integration, and other areas. As the book shows, conservatives created an anti-progressive game plan that included a well-funded media and public relations push; an anti-union assault essential to the larger project of delegitimizing any government...