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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The National Commission on Urban Problems, headed by former Senator Paul Douglas, has castigated urban renewal as "a failure quite irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as...
The high cost of conventional housing has spurred the development of a new kind of dwelling: the inexpensive, mass-produced "modular homes." This year scores of companies are bringing them out. Such instant housing consists of room-sized sections-generally 12 ft. wide and up to 60 ft. long-that...
The trend to modules was started by Canada's Alcan Design Homes, which brought out a line of completely furnished aluminum-clad houses priced from $8,500 to $12,500, not including the lot and foundation. Indiana-based National Homes, one of the biggest manufacturers of prefabricated houses, opened...
Consider Barnett Frummer. He is a radical for love's sake who finds himself stuck to the hot asphalt pavement after going limp while protesting housing discrimination. He is the hapless yearner for un-chic Rosalie Mondle, who might one day paint "Get Out of Vietnam" across his chest...
Adolf Berle's scrutiny of power began well before minority demands for Black Power, student power, etc., gave the subject its present topicality. A veteran intellectual, with special credentials in law and economics, he has been in and out of government service for more than a third of this...