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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Jun 1999
ISBN:9780774807203
publisher: UBC Press

Houser

The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer, 1905-64

by H. Peter Oberlander & Eva M Newbrun

tagged: women, city planning & urban development
Description

Catherine Bauer changed forever the concept of social housing and inspired a generation of urban activists to integrate public housing into the emerging welfare state of the mid-20th century. She was one of a small group of idealists who called themselves “Housers” because of their commitment to raising the quality of urban life through improving shelter for low-income families.

 

The story of her life and achievement is full of famous names in art and architecture.  Her visionary teachings about the need for housing for the poor and disadvantaged, and the symbiotic relationship between good housing and a healthy society, remain as relevant as ever.

About the Authors

H. Peter Oberlander


Eva M Newbrun

Contributor Notes

H. Peter Oberlander is Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning at UBC and founder of the UBC Centre for Human Settlements. Eva M. Newbrun first became interested in housing issues as a social care worker. She lives in San Francisco and has been writing professionally for the past twenty-five years.

Editorial Reviews

Houser is a well-researched and well-written biography of this talented woman.

— CBRA 2093

Peter Oberlander and Eva Newbrun have traced her career in meticulous detail and written a highly readable account of her life and times. Ostensibly a biography of Catherine, their book is simultaneously a biography of the Housing Movement that she helped to spawn and of the early City Planning Movement in which she was an active participant.

— Berkeley Planning Journal 14 (2000): 138-140

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