High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing / Ben Austen.
Austen, Ben, author.; Gordon, Robert Philip, cartographer.
2018
HD7288.78.U52 C425 2018 (Mapit)
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Title High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing / Ben Austen.
Author Austen, Ben, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780062235060 (hardcover)
0062235060 (hardcover)
Published New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Language English
Description x, 384 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Call Number HD7288.78.U52 C425 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.5/85/0977311
977.3/11
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.
Note Maps on end papers.
"Maps copyright © Robert Philip Gordon"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index.
Added Author Gordon, Robert Philip, cartographer.
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Part one. A home over Jordan. Portrait of a Chicago slum
The reds and the whites
Catch-as-catch-can
Warriors
The mayor's pied-à-terre
Part two. Cabrini Green Harlem Watts Jackson. Cabrini-Green rap
Concentration effects
This is my life
Faith brought us this far
How horror works
Dantrell Davis Way
Part three. Rotations on the land. Cabrini mustard and turnip greens
If not here. . . where?
Transformations
Old town, new town
They came from the projects
The people's public housing authority
The Chicago neighborhood of the future.

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