New Deal Ruins -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Public Housing and Urban Planning Orthodoxy -- 1. The Quiet Successes and Loud Failures of Public Housing -- 2. Dismantling Public Housing -- 3. Demolition in Chicago, New Orleans, and Atlanta -- 4. "Negro Removal"...

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