Part of my reading assignment for state and local government tonight included an excerpt from Kenneth Jackson's book, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Pages 203 to 209 and 213 to 218 make for some very disturbing reading. The topics cover the racially motivated underwriting practices of the FHA. In an effort to find something similar on the web, I came across the following series of articles entitled The Disfigurement of the American City. I have not read them yet, but a brief gloss-over seems to indicate that the material is similar.
The Disfigurement of the American City, Part 1
The Fruits of Public Housing: Ghettos: A Tale of Two Kinds of Cities, Part 2
Redlining and the Federal Housing Administration: A Tale of Two Kinds of Cities, Part 3
Slums: The Legacy of Urban Renewal Tale of Two Kinds of Cities , Part 4
The Interstate Highway System and the Disfiguring of America, A Tale of Two Kinds of Cities: Part 5
The Political Root of the Destruction of the American City, and Its Solution: A Tale of Two Kinds of Cities, Part 6
Posted by AJR at March 24, 2003 09:56 PM