Exploring Katherine Bauer's Ideas on Modern Housing and Urban Planning

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Learn about Katherine Bauer's journey from art and culture to advocating for more egalitarian living conditions through her book Modern Housing and leadership in the Labor Housing Conference. Explore Bauer's insightful ideas on the economics, government role, design, and integration of families' homes within urban developments.

Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) by Eric Blanc haymarketbooks.org/books/1907-revolutionary-social-democracy