A Decent Place To Live : From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History /

A Decent Place To Live : From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History / / Jane Roessner ; [new foreword by Karilyn Crockett].

When Boston's Columbia Point housing project was built in the early 1950s on the isolated edge of Dorchester Bay, it was hailed as a noble government experiment to provide temporary housing for working-class families who had fallen on hard times. By the mid-1970s, the model community had disint...

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Roessner, Jane,
TeilnehmendeR:
Crockett, Karilyn,
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 314 pages) :; illustrations, maps
Notes:Reprint of 2000 edition with new foreword.
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Table of Contents:
  • Columbia Point, 1951-1962
  • Breaking Ground at the Calf Pasture
  • The Promise of Public Housing
  • Ignoring the Warnings
  • Moving In: A Tale of Two Families
  • Building a New Community
  • The Mothers Club
  • Children of the Point: I
  • Columbia Point in the Spotlight
  • Columbia Point, 1962-1978
  • "Island of Isolation"
  • The Downhill Slide
  • Housing of Last Resort
  • Children of the Point: II
  • Planning for Columbia Point
  • Moving Out and Moving In
  • The News from Columbia Point
  • Columbia Point, 1978-1987
  • Unlikely Partners
  • Seeing Is Believing
  • The Court Takes Over
  • Receivership
  • Shotgun Marriage
  • Designing the New Community
  • The Wrecking Ball
  • Harbor Point, 1988-2000
  • The Blitz
  • Goodboy
  • Renting and Recession
  • Moving into Harbor Point
  • Running the New Community
  • Lessons from Harbor Point.

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