American Project
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh · first published 2000
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"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 in
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…poverty, we'd do away with them; the fact that some people escape them blurs the issue just enough so that our brain files it away as a grey area. But it's not: the projects are bad. One good book: _American Project_, by Sudhir Venkatesh.
on “Micro-apartments next for S.F.?” ↗…this comment twice. There's a tremendous amount of data freely available and it doesn't take a PhD to see correlations between motivations and consequences. To this list, I add: http://www.amazon.com/American-Project-Rise-Modern-Ghetto/dp... Tough read. Worth reading.
on “Culture still doesn’t explain poverty” ↗