Titre et auteur:

From tenements to the Taylor homes : in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America / edited by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From better dwellings to better neighborhoods: the rise and fall of the first national housing movement / Robert B. Fairbanks -- The garden city and planned industrial suburbs: housing and planning on the eve of World War I / John S. Garner -- "No idea of doing anything wonderful": the labor-crisis origins of national housing policy and the reconstruction of the working-class community, 1917-1919 / Eric J. Karolak -- Shaping housing and enhancing consumption: Hoover's interwar housing policy / Janet Hutchison -- The federal government and housing during the Great Depression / Gail Radford -- The federal housing program during World War II / Kristin M. Szylvian -- Public housing and the postwar urban renaissance, 1949-1973 / Roger Biles -- The other "subsidized housing": federal aid to suburbanization, 1940s-1960s / Thomas W. Hanchett -- Why they built Pruitt-Igoe / Alexander von Hoffman -- Choosing segregation: federal housing policy between Shelley and Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Planned destruction: the interstates and central city housing / Raymond A. Mohl -- Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and housing policy in the age of limits / John F. Bauman.

Ressources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0271020121
9780271020129
027102013X (pbk.)
9780271020136 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Housing policy United States History.
Urban policy United States History.
Logement Politique gouvernementale États-Unis Histoire.
Politique urbaine États-Unis Histoire.
Housing policy.
Urban policy.
Politique du logement.
Politique urbaine.
United States.

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Bauman, John F., 1938-
Biles, Roger, 1950-
Szylvian, Kristin M.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 214085
Cote: HD7293 .F7 2000
Statut: Disponible