TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petty,Audrey
TI  - High rise stories: voices from Chicago public housing 
T2  - The voice of witness series
SN  - 1938073371
PY  - 2013///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Voice of Witness, McSweeney's
KW  - Poor
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Public housing
KW  - History
N1  - "The narratives in this book are the result of extensive oral history interviews with twenty-six men and women from Chicago, ... former public housing residents of Cabrini-Green, Rockwell Gardens, ABLA Homes, and Robert Taylor Homes, among others."--P. 25; Includes bibliographical references; Vital neighborhoods; by Alex Kotlowitz --; On plans and transformations; by Audrey Petty --; Dolores Wilson --; Dawn Knight --; Donnell Furlow --; Yusufu Mosley --; Eddie Leman --; Sabrina Nixon --; Paula Hawkins --; Sonovia Marie Petty --; Ashley Cortland --; Chandra Bell --; Tiffany Tucker --; Lloyd "Peter" Haywood --; Appendices; Timeline of housing and civil rights in Chicago; The last tower; by Ben Austen; High rise architecture; by D. Bradford Hunt; Where are they now?; by the Chicago Housing Authority; Plan for transformation after ten years; by Lawrence J. Vale and Erin Graves
N2  - In first-person accounts, former residents of Chicago's public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rise apartments and the tone of the community life and poverty levels that existed
ER  -