After the Projects is a significant addition to the literature on both public housing and urban redevelopment. The audience forthis book is broad and, because it is so well written, it is accessible to practitioners and academics (historians, political economists, and planners). The book is appropriate for graduate courses thatfocus on the history of public housing and the examination of urban redevelopment under theneoliberal policy
Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative (RCHI). Vale is the author or editor of ten previous books examining urban design, housing and planning, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing, and the co-edited book The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From
Disaster.