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- catalog abstract ""Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and the public have viewed only from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling book recreates tenants' thirty-year effort to build a safe and secure neighborhood: their political battles for services from an indifferent city bureaucracy, their daily confrontation with entrenched poverty, their painful decisions about whether to work with or against the street gangs whose drug dealing both sustained and imperiled their lives." "American Project explores the fundamental question of what makes a community viable. In his chronicle of tenants' political and personal struggles to create a decent place to live, Venkatesh brings us to the heart of the matter."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11704316.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and the public have viewed only from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling book recreates tenants' thirty-year effort to build a safe and secure neighborhood: their political battles for services from an indifferent city bureaucracy, their daily confrontation with entrenched poverty, their painful decisions about whether to work with or against the street gangs whose drug dealing both sustained and imperiled their lives." "American Project explores the fundamental question of what makes a community viable. In his chronicle of tenants' political and personal struggles to create a decent place to live, Venkatesh brings us to the heart of the matter."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A Place to Call Home -- Doing the Hustle -- "What's It Like to Be in Hell?" -- Tenants Face Off with the Gang -- Street-Gang Diplomacy -- The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-317) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 332 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "American project.".
- catalog identifier "0674003217 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "American project.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "American project.".
- catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "363.5/85/0977311 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Housing Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "Crime in public housing Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "HD7288.78.U52 C476 2000".
- catalog subject "Inner cities Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "Low-income housing Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "Public housing Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "Robert Taylor Homes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Place to Call Home -- Doing the Hustle -- "What's It Like to Be in Hell?" -- Tenants Face Off with the Gang -- Street-Gang Diplomacy -- The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto.".
- catalog title "American project : the rise and fall of a modern ghetto / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.".
- catalog type "text".