High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

by Ben Austen

Book Overview

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062235079
• ISBN13: 9780062235077
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.7"