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Robert B Fairbanks - The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 - 9781439911167 - V9781439911167
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The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965

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Description for The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFFB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.

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 ... Read more


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439911167
SKU
V9781439911167
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Robert B Fairbanks
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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