The Housing Problem in American Cities

Veiller, Lawrence

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“…But Veiller expressed race consciousness in his analysis of the "housing problem in American cities" in his writings, stating, for example, that "where it is a city composed of people from every nation, alien to our life in nearly every way, ignorant of our language and brought up under conditions, social and political, that are entirely foreign to the ones under which they are now living, the results are fraught with the most serious consequences to the community." 15 These sentiments were embodied by the NHA, for which John M Glenn, director of the Russell Sage Foundation, served as treasurer, and Robert W. de Forest, NY's first tenement house commissioner and president of the COS, served as president. The philanthropy of the Russell Sage foundation and the COS were linked to big-business and legislation through Veiller, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Tenement House Commission.…”

Section: "Charitable" Surveys Of the Progressive Eramentioning

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The “Social Science” of Segregation: Between the “Charitable” Surveys of the Progressive Era and the “Appraisal” Surveys of the New Deal Era

Rovner¹

2021

Journal of Planning History

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Between the “charitable” surveys of the Progressive Era and the “appraisal” surveys of the New Deal Era, the field of “Social Science” emerged. Although the philanthropic surveys of the Progressive Era influenced housing reform for working-class Persons of Color in urban neighborhoods, while the federal surveys of the New Deal Era influenced real estate disinvestment in those same neighborhoods, each had the effect of furthering segregation. This article considers the commonalities among the discourses, methods, and results of these two seemingly disparate ends of the survey spectrum to illuminate their respective contributions to one another and to segregation.

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Section: "Charitable" Surveys Of the Progressive Eramentioning

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The “Social Science” of Segregation: Between the “Charitable” Surveys of the Progressive Era and the “Appraisal” Surveys of the New Deal Era

Rovner¹

2021

Journal of Planning History

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Urban Planning

Vicuña¹,

Galland²

2018

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

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This entry synthesizes the official story of the history and evolution of modern urban planning with an emphasis on the domain's representative milestones. It begins by addressing distinctive urban planning notions conceived primarily as urban design during the first half of the twentieth century, and then moves on to highlight different waves of procedural planning approaches and their respective critiques and reactions since the advent of the post‐World War II era to date. The entry mainly focuses on planning thought and practice as conceived in the Global North but also raises awareness about emerging planning theorizations stemming from Global South contexts. Altogether, each planning stage features ad hoc planning conceptions characterized by specific values, interests, preferences, beliefs, and ways of implementation. This chronological account is thereby indicative of the polysemous character of urban planning, a product of its continuous reorientations as regards its ever‐changing planning agendas, policies, and practices irrespective of geographical contexts and sociopolitical realities and transitions.

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Gentrification through Housing: Urban Eugenics and Lawrence Veiller’s 1900 Tenement House Exhibition

Bidlingmaier¹

2019

Amerikastudien/American Studies

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New York City is currently experiencing a severe affordable housing crisis, and one of the main factors contributing to this problem has been commonly attributed to gentrification. Since the 1970s, Gentrification Studies have shed light on a wide range of issues but have not paid much attention to the history of housing in New York City. This paper traces inequitable housing development back to the Progressive Era when the home, specifically the tenement home, became the site of racial population management amidst mass immigration, rapid urbanization, the expansion of capitalism, and the growing fear of 'racial suicide.' Focusing on the Tenement House Committee (THC), under the direction of Lawrence Veiller, I will show how the organization's strategic housing policies and the technologies it employed such as cartography, correlational statistics, and demographic methods, was utilized as a means of urban eugenics to produce a 'fit' and 'abled' citizenry and labor force. I will argue that in the guise of (scientific) philanthropy and attempts to solve the problem of 'light and air,' THC mobilized and equipped architects, social scientists, politicians, and prominent reformers to support a larger project of population control that would have long-lasting effects on the racial geography of the city and the nation.

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The Housing Problem in American Cities

Abstract: The great. social and political problem of the times is the problem of the city. So grave has it become that many thoughtful men seriously question the adequacy of the democratic form of govern-

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The “Social Science” of Segregation: Between the “Charitable” Surveys of the Progressive Era and the “Appraisal” Surveys of the New Deal Era

The “Social Science” of Segregation: Between the “Charitable” Surveys of the Progressive Era and the “Appraisal” Surveys of the New Deal Era

Urban Planning

Gentrification through Housing: Urban Eugenics and Lawrence Veiller’s 1900 Tenement House Exhibition

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