Public housing, design politics, and twice-cleared communities --

Public housing and private initiative : developing Atlanta's Techwood and Clark Howell homes --

Redeveloping Techwood and Clark Howell : the purges of progress --

Up from little hell : developing Chicago's Frances Cabrini homes --

Urban renewal and the rise of Cabrini-Green --

Staving off collapse : mediated violence and the beginning of Cabrini's end --

Bringing the Gold Coast to the slum : Cabrini-Green's redevelopment and the litigation of inclusion --

Conclusion : public housing and the margins of empathy.