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625572
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Henderson, A. Scott.
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| Title & Author
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Housing the democratic ideal : : the life and thought of Charles Abrams /\ A. Scott Henderson.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, c2000.
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| Series Statement
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The Columbia history of urban life
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xi, 347 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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023111950X (cl : acid-free paper)
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: 9780231119504 (cl : acid-free paper)
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: 0231119518 (pbk.)
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: 9780231119511 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-331) and index.
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| Contents
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Immigration and community in the expanding metropolis -- Law, real estate, and praxis -- From tenement laws to housing authorities: social provision and the New Deal State -- Vision and reality: implementing policy on the local level -- The practitioner as scholar: urban studies and the conflict between "land" and "industry" -- Federal housing policies and the problem of a "Business Welfare State" -- "The walls of Stuvesant town": urban redevelopment and the struggle between public and private power -- The quest for open housing: racial discrimination and the role of the state -- Cold war, the United Nations, and "technical assistance" -- Urban renewal, the "perversion" of social reform, and home ownership for the poor -- "When the grey mist subsides."
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| Abstract
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"Housing and the Democratic Ideal uses Abrams's experiences as a lens through which we can better understand the development of American social policy and state expansion during the twentieth century. In his left-leaning critique of centrist liberalism. Abrams took aim at the use of fiscal and monetary policies to achieve social objectives - a practice that allowed business interests to maximize private profits at the expense of public benefits. His growing concern over racial discrimination prefigured its emergence as a highly contested aspect of the American state."--BOOK JACKET.
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Abrams, Charles,1902-1970.
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Housing policy-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Sociologists-- United States, Biography.
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| LC Classification
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HD7293.H464 2000
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| Parallel Title
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Housing and the democratic ideal
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