The following text field will produce suggestions that follow it as you type.

Popular Categories

American Project by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Compare American Project by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

$47.00

High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out, and to salvage its troubled legacy. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the first comprehensive 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 only viewed from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling book re-creates 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. | American Project by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Compare more products to Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

American Project by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

American Project by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $47.00
Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $32.00
Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $32.00
Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $24.00
Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $24.00
Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $42.00
Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $42.00
Ramanujan by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Ramanujan by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $12.99
Ramanujan by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Ramanujan by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $12.99
Petu Pumpkin Freedom Fighter by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Petu Pumpkin Freedom Fighter by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $12.99
Petu Pumpkin Freedom Fighter by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Petu Pumpkin Freedom Fighter by Arundhati Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $12.99
10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be by Karthik Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be by Karthik Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $11.99
10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be by Karthik Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be by Karthik Venkatesh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $11.99
Water Conflicts and Resistance by Venkatesh Dutta, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Water Conflicts and Resistance by Venkatesh Dutta, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $81.50
Water Conflicts and Resistance by Venkatesh Dutta, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Water Conflicts and Resistance by Venkatesh Dutta, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $81.50
Powered by Adeptmind