Shantytown, USA

Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Lisa Goff ISBN: 9780674968981
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: April 11, 2016
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Lisa Goff
ISBN: 9780674968981
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: April 11, 2016
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.

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Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.

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