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Author Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-

Title American project : the rise and fall of a modern ghetto / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 332 pages)
Summary "Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and the public have viewed only from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling book recreates tenants' thirty-year effort to build a safe and secure neighborhood: their political battles for services from an indifferent city bureaucracy, their daily confrontation with entrenched poverty, their painful decisions about whether to work with or against the street gangs whose drug dealing both sustained and imperiled their lives." "American Project explores the fundamental question of what makes a community viable. In his chronicle of tenants' political and personal struggles to create a decent place to live, Venkatesh brings us to the heart of the matter."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Robert Taylor Homes.
SUBJECT Robert Taylor Homes fast
Subject Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago
African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago
Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago
Crime in public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago
Inner cities -- Illinois -- Chicago
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
African Americans -- Housing
Crime in public housing
Inner cities
Low-income housing
Public housing
Huisvesting.
Sociale achterstand.
Armoede.
Getto's.
Benden (criminaliteit)
POBREZA -- CHICAGO (Ill.)
VIOLÊNCIA -- CHICAGO (Ill.)
AFRO-DESCENDENTES (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS) -- CHICAGO (IL)
NEGROS (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS) -- CHICAGO (IL)
Illinois -- Chicago
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674044654
0674044657