In Reclaiming Public Housing, Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.
The three similarly designed projects were built at the same time under the same government program and experienced similar declines. Each received comparable funding for redevelopment, and each design team consisted of first-rate...
In Reclaiming Public Housing, Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale look...
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.
First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing...
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assista...
Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this second edition reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and the prominent roles they play in the assertion of national identity.
Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this second edition reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capi...
Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this book reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and the prominent roles they play in the assertion of national identity.
Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this book reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and t...
Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and innovations of promise. The focus on planning practice prompted the editors to analyze images that are now at work in our cities. For Vale and Warner, all city design and constructions offer material...
Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicti...
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In"Purging the Poorest," Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the deserving poor. In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country s first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale s groundbreaking history of these twice-cleared communities provides...
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. I...
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Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing.
With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally...
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing.
With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally...
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...
