Urban planning and politics in Atlanta
Urban planning and politics in Atlanta A new book from Akira Drake Rodríguez examines how public housing developments served as an entry point for residents to fight for democracy. The 1972 demolition of the St. Louis, Missouri urban housing projects known as Pruitt-Igoe less than 20 years after their completion in 1956 illustrates the lack of maintenance given to public housing in the United States. Atlanta was one of the first cities to build public housing developments as a part of the New Deal of the 1930s, during a time w...
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