The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
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The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)

The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)

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Robert B Fairbanks (Author)  

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In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these Southwestern cities often handled population growth, urban planning, and economic development in ways that closely followed the national account of efforts to eliminate slums and provide public housing for the needy. The War on Slums in the Southwest therefore corrects some misconceptions about the role of slum clearance and public housing in this region as Fairbanks integrates urban policy into the larger understanding of federal and state-based housing policies. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Robert B. Fairbanks is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Making Better Citizens: Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1890-1960, and For the City as a Whole: Politics, Planning and the Public Interest in Dallas, 1900-1965.
  • Contributor: Robert B Fairbanks
  • Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • ISBN13: 9781439911150
  • Number of Pages: 252
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Release Date: 2014-08-08
  • Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Robert B. Fairbanks is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Making Better Citizens: Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1890-1960, and For the City as a Whole: Politics, Planning and the Public Interest in Dallas, 1900-1965.

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