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Author Seligman, Amanda I.

Title Block by block : neighborhoods and public policy on Chicago's West Side / Amanda I. Seligman.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F548.9.A1 S45 2005    Available  ---
Description xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Note Includes index.
Contents Introduction : block by block -- Chicago's West Side -- Housing codes -- Conservation and urban renewal -- A Chicago campus for the University of Illinois -- Public schools -- Blockbusting -- Keeping African Americans out -- Keeping whites in -- Epilogue : reconsidering white flight.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-296) and index.
Subject Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Urban policy -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Urban policy.
Illinois -- Chicago.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Social conditions.
White people -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Migrations -- 20th century.
White people.
White people -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Housing.
White people -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
City and town life.
Suburban life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Suburban life.
ISBN 0226746631 cloth alkaline paper
0226746658 paperback alkaline paper