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Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the deserving poor. This title offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy.

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"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)"

Purging the Poorest

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/04/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226012452, 978-0226012452
      ISBN10: 022601245X
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      Architecture Urban and municipal planning and policy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the deserving poor. This title offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy.

      Trade Review
      "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)"

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