Model workers' housing and model workers; the "project" as an ideal environment; the saga and scale of American public housing; cultural difference versus discriminatory segregation.

READING:

Tenement House Department of the City of New York, For You (New York, 1917)
Eric Mumford, "The 'Tower in a Park' in America: Theory and Practice, l920-l960," Planning Perspectives l0 (l995): l7-4l
"Bloods/Crips Program," Z Magazine (July/August l992), rep. Architecture California (l992)
Robin D.G. Kelley, Yo’ Momma’s DisFUNKtional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston, 1997), esp. pp. 15-23, 34-46

Recommended:
Robert Halpirn, Rebuilding the Inner City (New York, 1995)
John F. Bauman, Roger Biles and Kristin Szylvian, eds., From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of Urban Housing Policy in 20th-CenturyAmerica (University Park, Pa., 2000)
Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City (New York, 1989)
Richard Pommer, "The Architecture of Urban Housing in the United States during the Early l930s," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 37 (December l978): 235 -264
Gail Radford, Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal (Chicago, l996)
Peter G. Rowe, Modernity and Housing (Cambridge, l993)
Arnold Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (NY, l983)
Paul Groth, Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the US (Berkeley, 1994)
Kenneth N. Goines and Raymond Mohl, eds., The New Afro-American Urban History (NY,1996)
Jan Lin, Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (Minneapolis, 1998)
Sam Davis, The Architecture of Affordable Housing (Berkeley, l995)
Camilo José Vegara, The New American Ghetto (New Brunswick, 1995)

QUESTIONS:

To Be Announced.

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