Blueprint for Disaster

List of Illustrations

Introduction       What Went Wrong with Public Housing in Chicago?

Chapter 1          The 1937 Housing Act Revisited

Chapter 2          Building the Chicago Housing Authority

Chapter 3          Clearing Chicago’s Slums

Chapter 4          The End of Integration and the Taming of the CHA

Chapter 5          Designing High-Rise Disasters

Chapter 6          Planning a Social Disaster

Chapter 7          The Loss of the Working Class

Chapter 8          The Tenants Revolt

Chapter 9          The Gautreaux Case and the Limits of Judicial Activism

Chapter 10        The Long Road to Rebirth

Conclusion        The Unraveling of Public Housing in Chicago

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Notes