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Race and the Built Environment Guide

Housing Articles

Angell, Marisa. “Integration by Design: Bertrand Goldberg, Stanley Tigerman, and Public Housing Architecture in Postwar Chicago.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 76, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 218–38.  Available online via SAH and UC Press.

Hirsch, Arnold. “Containment on the Home Front: Race and Federal Housing Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War.” Journal of Urban History 26, (2000): 158-189.  Available online via Sage.

Lasner, Matthew Gordon. “Segregation by Design: Race, Architecture, and the Enclosure of the Atlanta Apartment.” Journal of Urban History (May 2017): 1-39.  Available online via Sage.

Mortice, Zach. “A Seat at the Table: To Design Affordable Housing in African American Neighborhoods, Architects Navigate Class, Race, Identity, and Community in a Privatized System. But Can Things Get Better?” Architect (Washington, D.C.) 109, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 50–53.  Available online via Architect.

Rohe, William M, and Lance Freeman. “Assisted Housing and Residential Segregation: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in the Siting of Assisted Housing Developments.” Journal of the American Planning Association 67, no. 3 (January 1, 2001): 279–92.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

Smith, Preston H. “The Quest for Racial Democracy: Black Civic Ideology and Housing Interests in Postwar Chicago.” Journal of Urban History 26, no. 2 (January 1, 2000): 131–57.  Available online via Sage.

Vale, Lawrence J, and Shomon Shamsuddin. “All Mixed up: Making Sense of Mixed-Income Housing Developments.” Journal of the American Planning Association 83, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 56–67.  Available online via EBSCO.