Adventures of a Slum Fighter (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Adventures of a Slum FighterOne OF the most glaring obstructions to a better life for millions of our people is the obsolete design and structure of our cities. Already we are acutely aware that the conditions of our metropolitan schools, hospitals, transport and recreation facilities are intolerable. And worst of all are the slums.That's why this book interests me so much. It's the author's adventures in wiping out slums. These are facts, not theories, because as a practical real-estate man he has done what he writes about. Reading like a novel, this book proves that slums cost us taxpayers more to keep than to clear, that the battle against child delinquency, disease, and vice is the battle against the slum.The response to these ills of our cities has been wholesale ¿ight from the city itself, but not from the city as such. The city remains la source as it has been since time immemorial. Accordingly, the cities will not wither away, they will be rebuilt.The rebuilding of our cities is, therefore, one of the grand projects for the years immediately ahead. The programs will be varied - creative and imitative. The emphasis will be here on one objective, there on another.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.