Public Housing That Worked : : New York in the Twentieth Century /

Public Housing That Worked : : New York in the Twentieth Century / / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.

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When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Bloom, Nicholas Dagen,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2008
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 33 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Model Housing as a Municipal Service
  • Chapter 1. Defining a Housing Crisis
  • Chapter 2. Three Programs Are Better Than One
  • Chapter 3. High-Rise Public Housing Begins
  • Chapter 4. Model Tenants for Model Housing
  • Chapter 5. Tightly Managed Communities
  • Part II: Transforming Postwar New York
  • Chapter 6. The Boom Years
  • Chapter 7. Designs for a New Metropolis
  • Chapter 8. The Price of Design Reform
  • Chapter 9. The Benefits of Social Engineering
  • Chapter 10. Meeting the Management Challenge
  • Part III: Welfare-State Public Housing
  • Chapter 11. Surviving the Welfare State
  • Chapter 12. The Value of Consistency
  • Part IV: Affordable Housing
  • Chapter 13. Model Housing Revisited
  • Appendix A: Guide to Housing Developments
  • Appendix B: Tenant Selection Policies and Procedures
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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