| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
A new deal to plan the new south: the politics of Atlanta's public housing -- University homes: the spatial uplift of a deviant slum -- From production of place to production of space: spatial justice in Perry homes -- Grady homes: scaling up Black participatory geographies -- "What are we doing to help ourselves?": Atlanta's Black urban regime and the limits to tenant activism -- Deviancy, demolition, and demobilization: the end of Atlanta's public housing |
| Summary |
This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among Black women. Urban revitalization policies target public housing residents by demolishing public housing towers and dispersing poor (Black) residents into new, deconcentrated spaces in the city via housing choice vouchers and other housing-based tools of economic and urban development. Diverging Space for Deviants establishes alternative functions for public housing developments that would necessitate their existence in any city. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income residents--a necessity as wealth inequality in cities increases--public housing developments function as a necessary political space in the city, one of the last remaining frontiers for citizens to engage in inclusive political activity and make claims on the changing face of the state |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta
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Housing policy -- Georgia -- Atlanta
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African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta
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African Americans -- Housing
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Housing policy
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Public housing
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Georgia -- Atlanta
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780820359502 |
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0820359505 |
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