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Urban Reform: How the Other Half Lives

Year

2015

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

30m

Rating

TVPG

Author

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Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

Study how progressive reformers responded to the troubles of big cities through urban planning, new thinking about poverty, and the establishment of settlement houses and social work to aid the urban poor. Also learn about activism to address alcohol abuse and prostitution, as well as governmental actions to reform housing, urban sanitation, and public health.

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