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LEADER: 02552cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2013478606
003 DLC
005 20141106081148.0
008 140513s2013 cauab b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2013478606
020 $a1938073371
020 $a9781938073373
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn816564486
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050 00 $aHD7304.78.U52$bC444 2013
082 04 $a363.5/850977311$223
245 00 $aHigh rise stories :$bvoices from Chicago public housing /$ccompiled and edited by Audrey Petty ; foreword by Alex Kotlowitz.
260 $aSan Francisco :$bVoice of Witness :$bMcSweeney's,$cc2013.
300 $a279 p. :$bill., map ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aThe voice of witness series
500 $a"The narratives in this book are the result of extensive oral history interviews with twenty-six men and women from Chicago, ... former public housing residents of Cabrini-Green, Rockwell Gardens, ABLA Homes, and Robert Taylor Homes, among others."--P. 25.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tVital neighborhoods /$rby Alex Kotlowitz --$tOn plans and transformations /$rby Audrey Petty --$tDolores Wilson --$tDawn Knight --$tDonnell Furlow --$tYusufu Mosley --$tEddie Leman --$tSabrina Nixon --$tPaula Hawkins --$tSonovia Marie Petty --$tAshley Cortland --$tChandra Bell --$tTiffany Tucker --$tLloyd "Peter" Haywood --$gAppendices.$tTimeline of housing and civil rights in Chicago ;$tThe last tower /$rby Ben Austen ;$tHigh rise architecture /$rby D. Bradford Hunt ;$tWhere are they now? /$rby the Chicago Housing Authority ;$tPlan for transformation after ten years /$rby Lawrence J. Vale and Erin Graves.
520 $aIn first-person accounts, former residents of Chicago's public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rise apartments and the tone of the community life and poverty levels that existed.
650 0 $aPublic housing$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory.
650 0 $aPoor$zIllinois$zChicago$vInterviews.
650 0 $aPoor$zIllinois$zChicago$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
700 1 $aPetty, Audrey.
830 0 $aVoice of witness.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1412/2013478606-t.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1412/2013478606-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1412/2013478606-b.html