 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
RECLAIMING PUBLIC HOUSING
A HALF CENTURY OF STRUGGLE IN THREE PUBLIC NEIGHBORHOODS |
| By: |
Lawrence J. Vale |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£70.95 |
| Our price: |
£55.34 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£15.61 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0674008987 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674008984 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 December, 2002 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
In this text, Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these places. |
| Synopsis: |
In "Reclaiming Public Housing", Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s. The three similarly designed projects were built at the same time under the same government program and experienced similar declines. Each received comparable funding for redevelopment, and each design team consisted of first-rate professionals who responded with similar "defensible space" redesign plans. Why, then, was one redevelopment effort a nationally touted success story, another only a mixed success, and the third a widely acknowledged failure? The book answers this key question by situating each effort in the context of specific neighbourhood struggles. In each case, battles over race and poverty played out somewhat differently, yielding wildly different results.At a moment when local city officials throughout America are demolishing more than 100,000 units of low-income housing, this crucial book questions the conventional wisdom that all large public housing projects must be demolished and rebuilt as mixed-income neighbourhoods. |
| Illustrations: |
58 halftones, 25 maps, 18 line illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|