Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City
On Memorial Day 1948, the Columbia River achieved what neither the Portland Housing Authority nor the city government had been able to do, i.e. to end the short history of Vanport, Oregon. Vanport had been created in 1942 as a huge public housing project to accommodate thousands of workers who had f...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1161 |