This history of the idea of neighborhood in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. Using Atlanta as a lens to view the wider nation, LeeAnn Lands shows how assumptions about race and class have coalesced with attitudes toward residential landscape aesthetics and home ownership to shape public policies that promote and protect white privilege.
Lands studies the diffusion of...
This history of the idea of neighborhood in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with r...
This history of the idea of neighborhood in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. Using Atlanta as a lens to view the wider nation, LeeAnn Lands shows how assumptions about race and class have coalesced with attitudes toward residential landscape aesthetics and home ownership to shape public policies that promote and protect white privilege.
Lands studies the diffusion of...
This history of the idea of neighborhood in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with r...
