In an era when many decry the failures of federal housing programs, this book introduces us to appealing but largely forgotten alternatives that existed when federal policies were first defined in the New Deal. Led by Catherine Bauer, supporters of the modern housing initiative argued that government should emphasize non-commercial development of imaginatively designed compact neighborhoods with extensive parks and social services. The book explores the question of how Americans might have responded to this option through case studies of experimental developments in Philadelphia and New York. While defeated during the 1930s, modern housing ideas suggest a variety of design and financial strategies that could contribute to solving the housing problems of our own time.
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Walter Stabler, who headed the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's urban mortgage department, told a special Senate committee in 1920 that "the housing question" constituted the most serious problem "that this country has ever seen" and warned that it was "growing worse steadily." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noncommercial housing sector, hosiery workers, housing arena, housing movement, housing approach, urban shelter, housing idea, federal housing policy, housing reformers, federal housing programs, modern housing, housing question, permanent legislation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Housing Division, Harlem River, United States, Mackley Houses, World War, Labor Housing Conference, African Americans, New Deal, Catherine Bauer, Forest Hills Gardens, Public Works Administration, Edith Elmer Wood, New Jersey, National Industrial Recovery Act, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Wagner Act, William Jeanes, Henry Wright, Labor Department, Oskar Stonorov, Union Park Gardens, Alfred Kastner, American Federation of Labor, Chamber of Commerce New!
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Walter Stabler, who headed the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's urban mortgage department, told a special Senate committee in 1920 that "the housing question" constituted the most serious problem "that this country has ever seen" and warned that it was "growing worse steadily." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noncommercial housing sector, hosiery workers, housing arena, housing movement, housing approach, urban shelter, housing idea, federal housing policy, housing reformers, federal housing programs, modern housing, housing question, permanent legislation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Housing Division, Harlem River, United States, Mackley Houses, World War, Labor Housing Conference, African Americans, New Deal, Catherine Bauer, Forest Hills Gardens, Public Works Administration, Edith Elmer Wood, New Jersey, National Industrial Recovery Act, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Wagner Act, William Jeanes, Henry Wright, Labor Department, Oskar Stonorov, Union Park Gardens, Alfred Kastner, American Federation of Labor, Chamber of Commerce New!
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- Modern Housing (Metropolitan America) by Catherine Bauer on 13 pages
- Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson on 6 pages
- Critical Perspectives on Housing by Rachel Bratt on 5 pages
- Real Estate: Aspen Roadmap Law Course Outline (Aspen Roadmap Law Course Outlines) by Robin Paul Malloy on 5 pages
- Housing Form and Public Policy in the United States (Columbia Monographs on Architecture, Preservation, and Planning.) by Alfred Mediolo on 4 pages
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- A Nation Of Realtors: A Cultural History Of The Twentieth-century American Middle Class by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on 4 pages
- The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Sylvie Murray in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Wendell E. Pritchett in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Karen Ferguson in Back Matter
- The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries) by Rhonda Y. Williams in Back Matter
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