A Decent Place To Live : From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History / / Jane Roessner ; [new foreword by Karilyn Crockett] |
Autore | Roessner Jane |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Northeastern University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Soggetto topico |
Urban renewal
Public housing Housing policy City planning Housing policy - Massachusetts - Boston - History Public housing - Massachusetts - Boston - History City planning - Massachusetts - Boston - History Urban renewal - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Case studies. |
Soggetto non controllato | Urban communities |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524688503321 |
Roessner Jane | ||
Northeastern University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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 |
Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Vale Lawrence J. <1959-> | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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