High-risers, Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen
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High-risers, Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index
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maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
High-risers
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
986960216
Responsibility statement
Ben Austen
Sub title
Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
Summary
Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America's public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex's demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation's effort to provide affordable housing to the poor--and what we can learn from those mistakes
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Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
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- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program -- History
- Race relations
- African Americans + Housing
- Personal narratives
- Inner cities -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century -- History
- Noirs américains + Logement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Chicago Housing Authority -- History
- Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Urban poor + Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Logement social -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program
- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
- Illinois -- Chicago
- History
- Personal Narrative
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Poverty & Homelessness
- Social conditions
- African Americans + Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Pauvres en milieu urbain + Logement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Public housing
- Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions
- Public housing + History -- Illinois
- African Americans + Housing -- Illinois
- Pauvres + Logement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Low-income housing
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Public Policy + City Planning & Urban Development
- Récits personnels
- Low-income housing + History -- Illinois
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
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- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program -- History
- Race relations
- African Americans + Housing
- Personal narratives
- Inner cities -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century -- History
- Noirs américains + Logement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Chicago Housing Authority -- History
- Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Urban poor + Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Logement social -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program
- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
- Illinois -- Chicago
- History
- Personal Narrative
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Poverty & Homelessness
- Social conditions
- African Americans + Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Pauvres en milieu urbain + Logement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Public housing
- Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions
- Public housing + History -- Illinois
- African Americans + Housing -- Illinois
- Pauvres + Logement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Histoire
- Low-income housing
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Public Policy + City Planning & Urban Development
- Récits personnels
- Low-income housing + History -- Illinois
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
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