Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago

by Catherine Fennell

Book Overview

In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecurity, isolation, and underemployment that plagued Chicago's infamously troubled public housing projects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081669737X
• ISBN13: 9780816697373
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"