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Author:   Nicholas Dagen Bloom ,  Fritz Umbach ,  Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780801452048

ISBN 10:   080145204
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   10 April 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction I. Places MYTH #1. Public Housing Stands Alone by Joseph Heathcott MYTH #2. Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing by D. Bradford Hunt MYTH #3. Public Housing Breeds Crime by Fritz Umbach and Alexander Gerould MYTH #4. High-Rise Public Housing Is Unmanageable by Nicholas Dagen Bloom II. Policy MYTH #5. Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s by Yonah Freemark MYTH #6. Mixed-Income Redevelopment Is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing by Lawrence J. Vale MYTH #7. Only Immigrants Still Live in Eu ro pe an Public Housing by Florian Urban MYTH #8. Public Housing Is Only for Poor People by Nancy Kwak III. People MYTH #9. Public Housing Residents Hate the Police by Fritz Umbach MYTH #10. Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless by Rhonda Y. Williams MYTH #11. Public Housing Tenants Did Not Invest in Their Neighborhoods by Lisa Levenstein Notes Acknowledgments Contributor Biographies Index

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Public Housing Myths is a much-needed antidote to the prevailing understanding of public housing's role, its record, and its reputation. The authors in this volume interrogate the common (mis)perceptions about the program and by doing so provide a deeper and truer understanding of the program. -Edward G. Goetz, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota, author of New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy Public Housing Myths is a valuable collection of essays on an important topic. It presents a strong case for a reassessment of the conventional wisdom on public housing by challenging a number of persistent myths. The issues raised here are timely indeed, as policymakers, planners, architects, and scholars in a variety of disciplines continue to grapple with the thorny problem of providing decent and affordable housing to people in all socioeconomic strata of society. -Roger Biles, Illinois State University, coeditor of From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

Author Information

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Associate Professor of Social Sciences and chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Fritz Umbach is Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). He is the author of The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing In New York's Public Housing. Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.

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