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From
Tenements to the Taylor Homes In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century
America Edited by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin Szylvian
September 2000 | 6 x 9 inches
History - American, Political Science
Hardback: $59.00 SH
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02012-9
Paperback: $22.00 SH
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02013-6
Authored
by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical
perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded
from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing
on the enduring quest of policymakers to restore urban community,
the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned
suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing
during the Great Depression, the impact of post-World War II renewal
policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter,
and Reagan years.
John
F. Bauman is Research Professor of Community Planning and Development
at the Muskie School of Public Policy, University of Southern Maine
and Professor of History, California University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Public Housing, Race and Renewal: Urban Planning
in Philadelphia, 1920-1974 (Temple, 1987) and with Thomas Coode In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the
Agony of the American People (Northern Illinois, 1988).
Roger
Biles is Professor of History at East Carolina University. He
has written several books, including Richard J. Daley: Politics,
Race, and the Governing of Chicago (Northern Illinois, 1995)
and The South and the New Deal (Kentucky, 1994).
Kristin
M. Szylvian is Assistant Professor of History at Western
Michigan University.
