Housing and the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams

by A. Scott Henderson

Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "policy" intellectual. As a "public intellectual," Abrams's voice reached the American public through the pages of The Nation, The New Leader, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023111950X
• ISBN13: 9780231119504
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"