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From the puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2007].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing
  • Public Housing as an American Problem
  • Housing the Public Neighbor
  • Public Housing in Boston
  • 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
  • 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 1980s
  • The Politics of Public Housing Preferences
  • Getting Beyond Receivership
  • Boston Public Housing in the 1990s
  • Ideological Retrenchment
  • From the Puritans to the Projects