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Search - American Project : The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
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American Project The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto Author: A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from th... more »
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Genres:
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> Urban