Public Housing Myths : Perception, Reality, and Social Policy /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Heathcott, Joseph, 1968-, Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- (Editor ), Umbach, Gregory Holcomb (Editor ), Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public housing > Social aspects.
Public housing > Economic aspects.
City planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Logement social > Aspect economique.
Logement social > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Places
  • Myth #1: Public housing stands alone / Joseph Heathcott, New School University
  • Myth #2: Modernist architecture failed public housing / D. Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University
  • Myth #3: Public housing breeds crime / Fritz Umbach, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Alexander Gerould, San Francisco State University
  • Myth #4: High-rise public housing is unmanageable / Nicholas Dagen Bloom, New York Institute of Technology
  • Policy
  • Myth #5: Public housing ended in failure during the 1970s / Yonah Freemark, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago
  • Myth #6: Mixed-income redevelopment is the only way to fix public housing / Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Myth #7: Only immigrants still live in European public housing / Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art
  • Myth #8: Public housing is only for poor people / Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego
  • People
  • Myth #9: Public housing residents hate the police / Fritz Umbach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Myth #10: Public housing tenants are powerless / Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve
  • Myth #11: Tenants did not invest in public housing / Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina Greensboro.

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