books.google.com - High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post–World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence,...http://books.google.com/books/about/American_Project.html?id=rk7Dd0k_SG8C&q=gangs&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAmerican Project
