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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology: American Housing in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction: The Eternal War on the Slums -- PART I The Roots of Federal Housing Policy -- 1 From Better Dwellings to Better Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of the First National Housing Movement -- 2 The Garden City and Planned Industrial Suburbs: Housing and Planning on the Eve of World War I -- 3 "No Idea of Doing Anything Wonderful": The Labor-Crisis Origins of National Housing Policy and the Reconstruction of the Working- Class Community, 1917-1919 -- 4 Shaping Housing and Enhancing Consumption: Hoover's Interwar Housing Policy -- 5 The Federal Government and Housing During the Great Depression -- 6 The Federal Housing Program During World War II -- PART II Federal Housing Policy in Postwar America -- 7 Public Housing and the Postwar Urban Renaissance, 1949-1973 -- 8 The Other "Subsidized Housing": Federal Aid to Suburbanization, 1940s-1960s -- 9 Why They Built Pruitt-lgoe Alexander von Hoffman -- 10 Choosing Segregation: Federal Housing Policy Between Shelley and Brown -- 11 Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City Housing -- 12 Jimmy Carter, Patricia Roberts Harris, and Housing Policy in the Age of Limits -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Essay -- Contributors -- Index