How It Works : Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia /

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Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a whole, these derelict homes symbolize the city's plight in the wake of industrial decline. But a closer look reveals a remarkable new phenomenon-street-level entrepreneurs repurposing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fairbanks, Robert P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Informal sector (Economics) > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Recovery movement > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Self-help housing > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Self-help housing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Social settlements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Substance abuse treatment facilities > Government policy > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Welfare recipients > Housing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
welfare, philadelphia, pennsylvania, recovery, citizenship, citizen, vacant, row house, city, industry, industrial, urban, decline, phenomenon, entrepreneur, alcoholic, addict, drugs, facilities, reform, change, access, neighborhood, government, regulation, local, criminal, labor, relapse, challenges, policy, movement, activist, activism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Making of AHAD
  • 2. "How It Works": The Basic Architecture of the Kensington Recovery House System
  • 3. The Art of Building Programmatic Space
  • 4. The Persistent Failures of the Recovery House System: Low-Wage Labor, Relapse, and "the Wreckage of the Past"
  • 5. Unruly Spaces of Managed Persistence
  • 6. Statecraft/Self-Craft: Policy Transfer in the Recovery House Movement
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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