Affordable Housing in New York : : The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City /

Affordable Housing in New York : : The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City / / ed. by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner.

A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city&#...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Altwicker, Matthias,
Ballon, Hilary,
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen,
Cohen, Lizabeth,
Dolkart, Andrew S.,
Eisenstadt, Peter,
Freemark, Yonah,
Goldstein, Brian,
Greenwald, Richard,
Hock, Jennifer,
Holtzman, Benjamin,
Klemek, Christopher,
Knorr, Lilian,
Kroessler, Jeffrey A.,
Kubey, Karen,
Kwak, Nancy H.,
Lasner, Matthew Gordon,
Levine, Steven,
Mian, Nadia A.,
Milchman, Karina,
Mogilevich, Mariana,
Petrus, Stephen,
Sammartino, Annemarie,
Schindler, Susanne,
Smiley, David,
Soffer, Jonathan,
Umbach, Fritz,
Vossoughian, Nader,
Zipp, Samuel,
HerausgeberIn:
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen,
Lasner, Matthew Gordon,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2016
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 106 color + 142 b/w illus. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Photographs by David Schalliol
  • 1. Below- market Subsidized Housing Begins
  • Introduction
  • Tenements
  • City and Suburban Homes Company
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments
  • Sunnyside Gardens
  • Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments
  • Boulevard Gardens
  • Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
  • 2. Public Neighborhoods
  • Introduction
  • Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Charles Abrams
  • Harlem River Houses
  • Williamsburg Houses
  • Queensbridge Houses and East River Houses
  • Amsterdam Houses
  • Model Gallery I: Pre- World War II
  • 3. Public Housing Towers
  • Introduction
  • Robert F. Wagner, Jr
  • Jacob Riis Houses
  • Johnson Houses
  • Ravenswood Houses
  • 4. Stabilizing the Middle
  • Introduction
  • Stuyvesant Town
  • Bell Park Gardens
  • Queensview
  • Abraham Kazan
  • Penn Station South
  • Rochdale Village
  • Co-op City
  • Starrett City
  • Model Gallery II: Post- World War II
  • 5. Housing Reimagined
  • Introduction
  • West Side Urban Renewal Area
  • Jane Jacobs
  • West Village Houses
  • John Lindsay
  • Riverbend Houses
  • Schomburg Plaza
  • Edward J. Logue
  • Twin Parks
  • Marcus Garvey Village
  • Eastwood
  • Hip Hop and Subsidized Housing
  • 6. The Decentralized Network
  • Introduction
  • Urban Homesteading
  • Roger Starr
  • Nehemiah Houses
  • Abyssinian Development Corporation
  • The Koch Housing Plan
  • Asian Americans for Equality
  • Hughes House
  • Melrose Commons and Via Verde
  • Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Model Gallery III: Contemporary
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Illustration Credits

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