Join us as author Lawrence Vale speaks on transforming public housing at 6 p.m. Thursday, January 23 at the Harold Washington Library Center.
A Chicago native and professor of urban design and planning at MIT, Vale will discuss his book, Purging the Poorest. Subtitled "Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities," this book is a comparative look at the public housing experiences of Chicago and Atlanta. Vale offers a new narrative of the 75-year struggle to house the “deserving poor”—a struggle that began in Chicago as part of the Great Migration.
This event is presented in partnership with National Public Housing Museum and as part of One Book, One Chicago, which is exploring how migration has shaped Chicago.
The authors will sign books after the program; books will be for sale.
Seating is limited and is first come, first served. Late seating is at staff discretion.
