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Grand Designs

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Ian Volner

Better living through affordable housing

Grand Designs

by Ian Volner,

Can the affordable-housing movement redeem its past failures?

From reports of conditions in the New York City Housing Authority’s public-housing units since 2017. Unidentified children likely poisoned by lead paintMold in the apartments of asthmaticsBroken air conditioners in…

Asphalt Gardens

by Samuel James,

High Rise Stories

by Camille Bromley,

Audrey Petty on the history of Chicago public housing, the intimacy of oral histories, and reconstructing demolished communities

The Last Tower

by Ben Austen,

The decline and fall of public housing

Douglass Projects, Detroit, 2009

by Will Steacy,

Unnecessary excellence

by Daniel Brook,

What public-housing design can learn from its past

Try this at home

by Harper’s Staff,

The projects of poverty

by James Baldwin,

From Bauhaus to our house

by Tom Wolfe,

Public housing

Grand Designs

Grand Designs

Faulty Towers

Asphalt Gardens

High Rise Stories

The Last Tower

Douglass Projects, Detroit, 2009

Unnecessary excellence

Try this at home

The projects of poverty

From Bauhaus to our house

Debug

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Grand Designs

Grand Designs

Faulty Towers

Asphalt Gardens

High Rise Stories

The Last Tower

Douglass Projects, Detroit, 2009

Unnecessary excellence

Try this at home

The projects of poverty

From Bauhaus to our house

July 1981

Debug