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Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.