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Catherine Fennell - Last Project Standing - 9780816697366 - V9780816697366
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Last Project Standing

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Description for Last Project Standing Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JFFB; JFSG; JFSL; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.

In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecurity, isolation, and underemployment that plagued Chicago's infamously troubled public housing projects.

Focusing on Horner’s redevelopment, Catherine Fennell asks how Chicago’s endeavor transformed everyday built environments into laboratories for teaching urbanites about the rights and obligations of belonging to a city and a nation that seemed incapable of taking ... Read more

As she documents how the materiality of both the unsuccessful older projects and the recently emerging housing fosters feelings of belonging and loss, her work engages larger debates in critical anthropology and poverty studies—and opens a vital new perspective on the politics of space, race, and development in urban America

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816697366
SKU
V9780816697366
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Ref
99-15

About Catherine Fennell
Catherine Fennell is assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University. 

Reviews for Last Project Standing
"Using the case of publicly subsidized housing and its residents in Chicago, Catherine Fennell brilliantly traces the architectures of public housing decay and the so-called solutions to them as affective possibilities. Political debates over how to house the urban poor unfold as gripping ethnographic realities here, urging us to think through the materiality of sympathy."—Vincanne Adams, University of California, San ... Read more

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