Author: Robert J Roulston
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017915969
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jody Kretzmann
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ISBN: 9781885251336
Category : Libraries and community
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: D. Bradford Hunt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226360873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions—ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts—also paved the road to failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Author: Cyrus Colter
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Colter illuminates familiar things and people -- 63rd street and Martin Luther King Highway, wives and common-law mates, a teenager hooked on drugs and retired old men subsisting on pensions ...
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467139653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
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Category : Stockbrokers
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: Michael Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195126457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Author: Denver Public Library
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Category : Non-fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: Denver Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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