Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

The War on Slums in the Southwest

Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965

The War on Slums in the Southwest( )
Author: Fairbanks, Robert B.
Series title:Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4399-1116-7
Publication Date:Mar 2016
Publisher:Temple University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $30.95
Book Description:

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...
More Description



Featured Books

Prequel
Maddow, Rachel
Hardback: $32.00
Madness
Hylton, Antonia
Hardback: $30.00
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.