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Author Leighninger, Robert D., 1941-

Title Building Louisiana : the legacy of the Public Works Administration / Robert D. Leighninger, Jr
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 298 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I.A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PWA IN LOUISIANA; PART II. CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE: REDEVELOPING COMMUNITY; PART III. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: BUILDING A MODERN ECONOMY; APPENDIX. THE LEGACY: AN INVENTORY OF NONFEDERAL PWA PROJECTS IN LOUISIANA; Notes; Index
Summary Robert D. Leighninger, Jr., believes there may be a model for municipal building projects everywhere in the ambitious and artful structures erected in Louisiana by the Public Works Administration. In the 1930s, the PWA built a tremendous amount of infrastructure in a very short time. Most of the edifices are still in use, yet few people recognize how these schools, courthouses, and other great structures came about. Building Louisiana documents the projects one New Deal agency erected in one southern state and places these in social and political context. Based on extensive research in the Nat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index
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Subject United States. Public Works Administration.
SUBJECT United States. Public Works Administration fast
Subject Public works -- Louisiana -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Public works
Louisiana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781604731545
1604731540
1283210401
9781283210409
9786613210401
6613210404