Comments on: A Sprawling Debate

By: Samuel Goldman

Samuel Goldman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:24:30 +0000

The classic popular volume is Robert Caro’s The Power Broker. More biography than study of housing policy. But there’s plenty of that in there too.

Kenneth Jackson’s The Crabgrass Frontier is terrific. Herbert Gans’ The Urban Villagers and the Levittowners are also useful, if with a real 60s liberal bent.

By: Kevin J Jones

Kevin J Jones — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:55:05 +0000

‘But “hidden” planning is evidently another, as documented by countless studies of the housing policies of the 1940s and ’50s, which included the physical destruction of hundreds of traditional neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.’

If I’m not too late in commenting, may I ask you recommend a good book about these studies?

Thank you.

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