| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles. By Don Parson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xx, 289 pp. Cloth, $68.95, ISBN 0-8166-4369-5. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8166-4370-9.)
Unloved, under-funded, and since the 1990s the object of the federal HOPE VI program's "new-urbanism" efforts to transform grim projects into islands of residential delight, public housing has long attracted scholarly scrutiny. In this in-depth study of public housing in Los Angeles Don Parsons investigated the political forces that doomed this New Deal endeavor to "make a better world."	1
Public housing, as a template for a new-era, European-style, modern, urban community, flourished in Los Angeles. Backed by local housing activists such as Frank Wilkinson, L.A. created a City Housing Authority (CHA) and before World War II built ten housing projects such as Aliso Village and Hacienda Village (designed by Richard Neutra) that reflected modernism and the left-liberal hope that public housing bequeathed "the framework of a new social life in a democratic community" (p. 43).	. . .

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