From the puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors /
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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