After the Projects, one of the best books I have read in recent years, makes major contributions to existing understanding about mixed-income housing and poverty governance. Anyone who is interested in the future of public housing should read it." -David Varady, Journal of the American Planning Association
Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative. 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.