New Deal ruins [[electronic resource] ] : race, economic justice, and public housing policy / / Edward G. Goetz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452638903321
• Autore: Goetz Edward G (Edward Glenn), <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8014-6754-3; 0-8014-5152-3; 0-8014-6755-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.5/5610973
• Soggetti: Public housing - Government policy - United States; Housing policy - United States; Relocation (Housing) - United States; Urban policy - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. PUBLIC HOUSING AND URBAN PLANNING ORTHODOXY -- 1. THE QUIET SUCCESSES AND LOUD FAILURES OF PUBLIC HOUSING -- 2. DISMANTLING PUBLIC HOUSING -- 3. DEMOLITION IN CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, AND ATLANTA -- 4. "NEGRO REMOVAL" REVISITED -- 5. THE FATE OF DISPLACED PERSONS AND FAMILIES -- 6. EFFECTS AND PROSPECTS IN REVITALIZED COMMUNITIES -- Conclusion. THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HOUSING -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990's has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, ; aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impact of policy changes in three cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans. Goetz shows how this transformation is related to pressures of gentrification and the enduring influence of race in American cities. African Americans have been disproportionately affected by this policy shift; it is the cities in which public housing is most closely identified with minorities that have been the most aggressive in removing units. Goetz convincingly refutes myths about the supposed failure of public housing. He offers an evidence-based argument for renewed investment in public housing to accompany housing choice initiatives as a model for innovative and equitable housing policy.

The Cold War : historiography, memory, representation / / edited by Konrad H. Jarausch, Christian F. Ostermann, and Andre Etges

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910164962003321
• Autore: Ostermann Christian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: De Gruyter, 2017; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 3-11-049267-9; 3-11-049617-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 pages)
• Disciplina: 909.82/5
• Soggetti: Cold War - Historiography; Cold War - Social aspects - Europe; Cold War - Social aspects - United States; Memory - Social aspects - Germany - Berlin; Memory - Social aspects - Europe; Memory - Social aspects - United States; Cold War in literature; Cold War in motion pictures; Cold War in popular culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Rethinking, Representing, and Remembering the Cold War: Some Cultural Perspectives -- Representation and Recoding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cold War Cultures -- Probing the Cold War Narrative since 1945: The Case of Western Europe -- Changing Cold War Interpretations in Post-Soviet Russia -- Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers and Cold War Revisionism -- The Cold War in History Textbooks: A German-German, French and British Comparison -- Machiavelli's Angels Hiding in Plain Sight: Media Culture and French Spy Fiction of the Cold War -- Enemies, Spies, and the Bomb -- Remembering the American War in Vietnam -- "The Cold War? I Have it at Home with my Family" -- Protect and Survive -- Berlin's Gesamtkonzept for Remembering the Wall -- Competing for the Best Wall Memorial -- Contested Legacies -- Select Bibliography -- Name Index -- About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There are historical and political controversies, both nationally and internationally, about how the history of the Cold War should be told and taught, how it should be represented and remembered. While much has been written about the political history of the Cold War, the analysis of its memory and representation is just beginning. Bringing together a wide range of scholars, this volume describes and analyzes the cultural history and representation of the Cold War from an international perspective. That innovative approach focuses on master narratives of the Cold War, places of memory, public and private memorialization, popular culture, and schoolbooks. Due to its unique status as a center of Cold War confrontation and competition, Cold War memory in Berlin receives a special emphasis. With the friendly support of the Wilson Center.