The Progressives And The Slums
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The Progressives And The Slums
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Author : Roy Lubove
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 1963-04-15
The Progressives And The Slums written by Roy Lubove and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963-04-15 with History categories.
The Progressives and the Slums chronicles the reform of tenement housing, where some of the worst living conditions in the world existed. Roy Lubove focuses his study on New York City, detailing the methods, accomplishments, and limitations of housing reform at the turn of the twentieth century. The book is based in part on personal interviews with, and the unpublished writings of Lawrence Veiller, the dominant figure in housing reform between 1898 and 1920. Lubove views Veiller's role, surveys developments prior to 1890, and views housing reform within the broader context of progressive-era protest and reform.
The Progressives And The Slums
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Author : Roy Lubove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Progressives And The Slums written by Roy Lubove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
The Progressive Connection
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Author : Stephen Manson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Progressive Connection written by Stephen Manson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Progressivism (United States politics) categories.
"The Progressive Connection offers a comparison between the United States and Europe, especially the Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. These capitalistic democracies with social safety net programs have the highest standards of living in the world and equality is considered one of the most important values in their societies. The new Progressives in American politics are thinking about these ideas in a country they see as only favoring the wealthy and big business. Progressives like socialist ideas with capitalism on how to give the citizens of the country what other people in Europe, especially the Nordic countries, enjoy; health care for all, free college education, equality instead of poverty and slums, and so much more. This change in government could happen in the United States with this information given to the progressive politicians and to most Americans who know nothing about the particulars of this movement. The Nordic countries have high taxes and harsh weather but are the happiest people in the world according to the United Nations yearly report. Denmark has won it for years but in 2018 it was beaten out by Norway and in 2019 Finland came in first. The most important aspect of their happiness is that they have very little stress compared to the United States where chronic stress is becoming a public health crisis. This is a book that should be read by all Americans who have come to think that their country has been changing in ways that are becoming unacceptable to what they think it should be or what it has been in the past." --
Slums
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Author : Alan Mayne
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Slums written by Alan Mayne and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with History categories.
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Working Class Utopias
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Author : Robert M. Fogelson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Working Class Utopias written by Robert M. Fogelson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with History categories.
One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later. Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan’s group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.
Spearheads For Reform
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Author : Allen Freeman Davis
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1984
Spearheads For Reform written by Allen Freeman Davis and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Allen Davis looks at the influence of settlement-house workers on the reform movement of the progressive era in Chicago, New York, and Boston. These workers were idealists in the way they approached the future, but they were also realists who knew how to organize and use the American political system to initiate change. They lobbied for a wide range of legislation and conducted statistical surveys that documented the need for reform. After World War I, settlement workers were replaced gradually by social workers who viewed their job as a profession, not a calling, and who did not always share the crusading zeal of their forerunners. Nevertheless, the settlement workers who were active from the 1880s to the 1920s left an important legacy: they steered public opinion and official attitudes toward the recognition that poverty was more likely caused by the social environment than by individual weakness,
The Slums Of Baltimore Chicago New York And Philadelphia
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Author : United States Bureau of Labor
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Slums Of Baltimore Chicago New York And Philadelphia written by United States Bureau of Labor and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This sobering report from the height of the Progressive Era documents the appalling conditions in the urban neighborhoods where millions of newly arrived immigrants were struggling to survive. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Staging The Slums Slumming The Stage
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Author : J. Westgate
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Staging The Slums Slumming The Stage written by J. Westgate and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob Riis
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2011
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Civitas By Design
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Author : Howard Gillette, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06
Civitas By Design written by Howard Gillette, Jr. and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with Political Science categories.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens. In Civitas by Design, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., takes a critical look at this planning tradition, examining a wide range of environmental interventions and their consequences over the course of the twentieth century. As American reform efforts moved from progressive idealism through the era of government urban renewal programs to the rise of faith in markets, planners attempted to cultivate community in places such as Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York; Celebration, Florida; and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. Key figures—including critics Lewis Mumford and Oscar Newman, entrepreneur James Rouse, and housing reformer Catherine Bauer—introduced concepts such as neighborhood units, pedestrian shopping malls, and planned communities that were implemented on a national scale. Many of the buildings, landscapes, and infrastructures that planners envisioned still remain, but frequently these physical designs have proven insufficient to sustain the ideals they represented. Will contemporary urbanists' efforts to join social justice with environmentalism generate better results? Gillette places the work of reformers and designers in the context of their times, providing a careful analysis of the major ideas and trends in urban planning for current and future policy makers.