LEADER 04298nam 2200637 450 001 9910786896903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0132-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201321 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216408 035 $a(OCoLC)891395149 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10904654 035 $a(OCoLC)899261469 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41623 035 $a(DE-B1597)451004 035 $a(OCoLC)979576048 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201321 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904654 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442400 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216408 100 $a20080212h20082008 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPublic housing that worked $eNew York in the twentieth century /$fNicholas Dagen Bloom 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 311 $a1-322-51045-8 311 $a0-8122-2067-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [279]-348) and index. 327 $aModel 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. 330 $aWhen 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 public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City Housing Authority, America's largest public housing manager, still maintains over 400,000 tenants in its vast and well-run high-rise projects. While by no means utopian, New York City's public housing remains an acceptable and affordable option. The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long. Public Housing That Worked shows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930's, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design. Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. By focusing on what worked, rather than on the conventional history of failure and blame, Bloom provides useful models for addressing the current crisis in affordable urban housing. Public Housing That Worked is essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs. 606 $aPublic housing$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCity planning$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aUrban Studies. 615 0$aPublic housing$xHistory 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory 676 $a363.5/85097471 700 $aBloom$b Nicholas Dagen$f1969-$01126146 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786896903321 996 $aPublic housing that worked$93839763 997 $aUNINA