High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing / Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon.

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Austen, Ben (Author)
Other Authors:	Gordon, Robert Philip (Cartographer)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) > History. Cabrini-Green High Impact Program > History. Cabrini-Green High Impact Program. Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.) Chicago Housing Authority > History. Public housing > Illinois > Chicago > History. Low-income housing > Illinois > Chicago > History. African Americans > Housing > Illinois > Chicago > History. Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions. Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity. African Americans > Housing. Low-income housing. Public housing. Race relations. Social conditions. Illinois > Chicago. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	x, 384 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
Format:	Book

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