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Aliso Village: clear-eyed slum abatement. (Places).(East Los Angeles housing project)
The history of public housing suggests that utopia is not merely a naive idea, but may be a dangerous one. In her recent book The Provisional City UCLA professor Dana Cuff has argued that some of the worst housing projects in Los Angeles were the result of well-intentioned and civic-minded people, who, during the first half of the 20th century, were trying to rid the city of neighborhoods they considered slums.
"It should not be assumed that some profit-grubbing developers were responsible for the most egregious civic works; the state and the Progressives were leagues ahead when it came to disrupting communities," she writes. Cuff quotes an Illinois woman trying to protect her neighborhood against the expansion plans of a local university: "They can really destroy you, the nice people."
The new Aliso Village is a neighborhood of 470 dwelling units built on the site of the most notorious housing projects in East Los Angeles. The question is: Can good design, even the most enlightened by current…
- Housing Authority Takes Steps to Make Aliso Village Community Safe.
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 10, 1999 700+ words
...The residents of Aliso Village Public Housing community...Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) installs...president of the Aliso Village Resident Management...and 40 shootings at Aliso Village in 1998, and six people...
- First Annual Cesar Chavez Day Celebrations in Los Angeles.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 27, 2001 700+ words
...Martin Luther King Blvd. Los Angeles K-8 charter school...Ave., Biltmore Bowl Los Angeles Keynote speaker: Governor...Housing Authority, Aliso Village 1401 E. First St. (Corner of First and Utah) Los Angeles Students from Santa...
- Conference in Downtown Los Angeles Attracts 500 Real Estate Professionals Eager...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 27, 2002 700+ words
...Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles today to spur investment...project in South Central Los Angeles that created 52 units...Also featured was the Aliso Village Project which renovated...old project in East Los Angeles which presented a danger...
- East side story: rail line spurring boom in development activity.(McCormack...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Fine, Howard August 1, 2005 700+ words
...Heights and East Los Angeles. Developer interest...100 million Aliso Village housing project...Heights and East Los Angeles. But because...rail line. The Aliso Village and Pico Aliso...and county of Los Angeles and the Metropolitan...
- L.A.'s Fourth St. bridge traverses troubled waters. (Gangs - Los Angeles,...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Jones, Arthur January 8, 1993 700+ words
LOS ANGELES -- The ornate Fourth...end, in the projects of Aliso Village, Pico Gardens and Pico...stories, pages 4, 5). In Los Angeles, when the hotel and restaurant...The people who own Los Angeles, who own the businesses...
- Utopian visions continue to shape affordable architecture.(Banking on the...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Taylor, Nicole June 28, 2004 700+ words
...viewed as failures. Los Angeles avoided these high...that opened in 1942, Aliso Village, was heralded as a transformation of East Los Angeles from slums to "community...kind at the time, Aliso Village was conceived as a...
- Boyle Heights Community Celebrates Grand Opening of $103 Million Affordable...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 2, 2003 700+ words
...News Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS...project known as Aliso Village, is the largest...celebration included Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn...residents of Aliso Village," said Mayor...neighborhoods of Los Angeles." This $103...
- Cesar Chavez Honored Today in First Annual State Holiday.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 30, 2001 700+ words
...Martin Luther King Blvd. Los Angeles K-8 charter school...Ave., Biltmore Bowl Los Angeles Keynote speaker: Governor...Housing Authority, Aliso Village 1401 E. First St. (Corner of First and Utah) Los Angeles Students from Santa...
- Famous properties: fresh start; A mixed-income development brings new promise...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Property Management Halm, Karen July 1, 2005 700+ words
...Heights section of Los Angeles. Previously a notorious...development known as Aliso Village, the new $103 million...Authority of the City of Los Angeles. "We had two national...gang activity plaguing Aliso Village, said Salazar...
- Housing Authority Receives Drug Elimination Federal Grant.
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 26, 1998 700+ words
...of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) has...congratulates the City of Los Angeles Housing Authority...Jordan Downs, Aliso Village, Pico-Aliso...developments in Los Angeles. Drug Elimination...Jordan Downs Aliso Village Pico Aliso Gardens...
Source: HighBeam Research, Aliso Village: clear-eyed slum abatement. (Places).(East Los Angeles...
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