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?Plunz provides an erudite, revealing, and relentlessly engaging portrait of a great urban place and its people. One would think the recollection of so many cycles of high-mindedness, ruthless exploitation, and damned foolishness would only exacerbate the discouragement we feel in the face of the intractable housing problems of our times. Somehow, that is not the case, for one is more impressed by the energy and the ingenuity, and the funny mix of social vision and business acumen upon which New York has been so unsatisfactorily but magnificently built. -- Kent Barwick, President, The Municipal Art Society of New York ?Plunz's book requires us to confront the meaning of the social housing tradition for an era marked by social catastrophe for the poor. -- Robert Fishman New York History ?Enormously ambitious but profoundly troubling... A deeply personal polemic about society and architecture. -- Robert Bruegmann Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians ?Thorough in its coverage and provocative in its interpretation. -- Samuel T. McSeveney Population and Environment ?Plunz's book restores to housing design the attention it deserves as architecture. -- Tony Schuman Journal of Architectural Education

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Richard Plunz is professor of architecture and the director of the Earth Institute's Urban Design Lab at Columbia University, where he has also chaired the Division of Architecture and directed the Urban Design Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His many books include The Urban Lifeworld: Formation, Perception, Representation (2001), After Shopping (2003), Eco-Gowanus: Urban Remediation by Design (2007), and Urban Climate Change Crossroads (2010).

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