The Resource High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon
High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 384 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780062235060
- Label
- High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
- Title
- High-risers
- Title remainder
- Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
- Statement of responsibility
- Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon
- Subject
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- trueSociety and culture -- Urban and regional studies
- trueLow-income housing
- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) -- History
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
- trueUrban sociology
- trueSociety and culture -- Wealth and class | Poverty
- trueChicago, Illinois
- truePoor African Americans
- Public housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
- trueCabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
- truePublic housing
- trueUrban planning
- African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History
- Low-income housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History
- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program -- History
- trueCrime in public housing
- trueUrban problems
- trueInner city
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Summary
- Blends personal narrative, city politics and national history in the story of Chicago's iconic public-housing project to trace its evolution from a 1940s slum to a towering community only blocks from the Gold Coast, where crime and government failures impacted the lives of countless families before the razing and dispersals of 2011
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2019.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10619825
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Austen, Ben
- Dewey number
-
- 363.5/85/0977311
- 977.3/11
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD7288.78.U52
- LC item number
- C42 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Gordon, Robert Philip
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program
- Public housing
- Low-income housing
- African Americans
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
- Label
- High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-365) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
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- Contents
- 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 -- 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 -- 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
- Control code
- ocn986960216
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 384 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062235060
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)986960216
- Label
- High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-365) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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 -- 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 -- 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
- Control code
- ocn986960216
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 384 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062235060
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)986960216
Subject
- African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History
- Cabrini-Green High Impact Program -- History
- trueCabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
- Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) -- History
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions
- trueChicago, Illinois
- trueCrime in public housing
- trueInner city
- trueLow-income housing
- Low-income housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
- truePoor African Americans
- truePublic housing
- Public housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- trueSociety and culture -- Urban and regional studies
- trueSociety and culture -- Wealth and class | Poverty
- trueUrban planning
- trueUrban problems
- trueUrban sociology
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- trueALA Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2019
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Social Sciences Books: 2018
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