Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City

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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Main Author: Uwe Lübken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2022-06-01
Series:Iperstoria
Subjects:
american history
race
environment
memory
displacement
Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1161

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