From the Puritans to the projects [[electronic resource] ] : public housing and public neighbors / / Lawrence J. Vale |
Autore | Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 460 p. ) : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 363.5850974461 |
Soggetto topico |
Public housing - Massachusetts - Boston - History
Housing policy - Massachusetts - Boston - History Poor - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-04457-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Illustrations Tables Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing Public Housing as an American Problem Housing the Public Neighbor Public Housing in Boston PART I: THE PREHISTORY OF PUBLIC HOUSING 1. Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions The Moral Geography of Puritan Space New Institutions for Indoor Relief Tenement Reform Settlement Houses Ideal Tenement Districts 2. Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities Frontier Individualism on Public Lands Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs Residential Districts Communities by Design Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors PART II: PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON 3. Building Selective Collectives, 1934-1954 Boston's Selective Collectives Public Works and Private Markets Public Housing as Slum Reform Public Housing as War Production (1940 -1945) Public Housing as Veterans' Assistance (1946 -1954) The Authority Is Watching 4. Managing Poverty and Race, 1955-1980 The Geopolitics of Public Housing Urban Renewal Rewarding the Elderly The Mechanisms of Patronage Racial Discrimination and the BHA Battles within the Bureaucracy The Decline and Fall of the BHA 5. The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return The Receivership Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980's The Politics of Public Housing Preferences Getting Beyond Receivership Boston Public Housing in the 1990's Ideological Retrenchment From the Puritans to the Projects Notes Credits Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455111403321 |
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From the Puritans to the projects [[electronic resource] ] : public housing and public neighbors / / Lawrence J. Vale |
Autore | Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 460 p. ) : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 363.5850974461 |
Soggetto topico |
Public housing - Massachusetts - Boston - History
Housing policy - Massachusetts - Boston - History Poor - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
ISBN | 0-674-04457-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Illustrations Tables Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing Public Housing as an American Problem Housing the Public Neighbor Public Housing in Boston PART I: THE PREHISTORY OF PUBLIC HOUSING 1. Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions The Moral Geography of Puritan Space New Institutions for Indoor Relief Tenement Reform Settlement Houses Ideal Tenement Districts 2. Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities Frontier Individualism on Public Lands Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs Residential Districts Communities by Design Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors PART II: PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON 3. Building Selective Collectives, 1934-1954 Boston's Selective Collectives Public Works and Private Markets Public Housing as Slum Reform Public Housing as War Production (1940 -1945) Public Housing as Veterans' Assistance (1946 -1954) The Authority Is Watching 4. Managing Poverty and Race, 1955-1980 The Geopolitics of Public Housing Urban Renewal Rewarding the Elderly The Mechanisms of Patronage Racial Discrimination and the BHA Battles within the Bureaucracy The Decline and Fall of the BHA 5. The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return The Receivership Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980's The Politics of Public Housing Preferences Getting Beyond Receivership Boston Public Housing in the 1990's Ideological Retrenchment From the Puritans to the Projects Notes Credits Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778165103321 |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 | ||
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From the Puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors / / Lawrence J. Vale |
Autore | Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 460 p. ) : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 363.5850974461 |
Soggetto topico |
Public housing - Massachusetts - Boston - History
Housing policy - Massachusetts - Boston - History Poor - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
ISBN | 0-674-04457-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Illustrations Tables Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing Public Housing as an American Problem Housing the Public Neighbor Public Housing in Boston PART I: THE PREHISTORY OF PUBLIC HOUSING 1. Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions The Moral Geography of Puritan Space New Institutions for Indoor Relief Tenement Reform Settlement Houses Ideal Tenement Districts 2. Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities Frontier Individualism on Public Lands Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs Residential Districts Communities by Design Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors PART II: PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON 3. Building Selective Collectives, 1934-1954 Boston's Selective Collectives Public Works and Private Markets Public Housing as Slum Reform Public Housing as War Production (1940 -1945) Public Housing as Veterans' Assistance (1946 -1954) The Authority Is Watching 4. Managing Poverty and Race, 1955-1980 The Geopolitics of Public Housing Urban Renewal Rewarding the Elderly The Mechanisms of Patronage Racial Discrimination and the BHA Battles within the Bureaucracy The Decline and Fall of the BHA 5. The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return The Receivership Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980's The Politics of Public Housing Preferences Getting Beyond Receivership Boston Public Housing in the 1990's Ideological Retrenchment From the Puritans to the Projects Notes Credits Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813527903321 |
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Purging the poorest : public housing and the design politics of twice-cleared communities / / Lawrence J. Vale |
Autore | Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (446 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.5/850977311 |
Collana | Historical studies of urban America |
Soggetto topico |
Public housing - Georgia - Atlanta - History
Public housing - Illinois - Chicago - History Urban renewal - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-299-38460-9
0-226-01259-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Public Housing, Design Politics, and Twice-Cleared Communities -- 2. Public Housing and Private Initiative: Developing Atlanta's Techwood and Clark Howell Homes -- 3. Redeveloping Techwood and Clark Howell: The Purges of Progress -- 4. Up from Little Hell: Developing Chicago's Frances Cabrini Homes -- 5. Urban Renewal and the Rise of Cabrini-Green -- 6. Staving Off Collapse: Mediated Violence and the Beginning of Cabrini's End -- 7. Bringing the Gold Coast to the Slum: Cabrini-Green's Redevelopment and the Litigation of Inclusion -- 8. Conclusion: Public Housing and the Margins of Empathy -- Notes -- Credits -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838366003321 |
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