Public housing that worked : : New York in the twentieth century / / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press,, [2008]
2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Model housing as a municipal service. Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities
  • Transforming postwar New York. The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge
  • Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency
  • Affordable housing. Model housing revisited
  • Appendix A. Guide to housing developments
  • Appendix B. Tenant selection policies and procedures.