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Shantytown, USA

Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor

Shantytown, USA( )
Author: Goff, Lisa
ISBN:978-0-674-66045-8
Publication Date:Apr 2016
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $74.95
Book Description:

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America's urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.

Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.558 x 23.495 x 2.54 cm
Book Weight:0.659 Kilograms



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