Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy

著者

• Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
• Umbach, Gregory Holcomb
• Vale, Lawrence J.

書誌事項

Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy

edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale

Cornell University Press, 2015

• : pbk
• : cloth

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing. With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally but also does so in a revisionist and provocative manner. With students in mind, Public Housing Myths is organized thematically around popular preconceptions and myths about the policies surrounding big city public housing, the places themselves, and the people who call them home. The authors challenge narratives of inevitable decline, architectural determinism, and rampant criminality that have shaped earlier accounts and still dominate public perception.

目次

IntroductionI. PlacesMYTH #1. Public Housing Stands Alone by Joseph HeathcottMYTH #2. Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing by D. Bradford HuntMYTH #3. Public Housing Breeds Crime by Fritz Umbach and Alexander GerouldMYTH #4. High-Rise Public Housing Is Unmanageable by Nicholas Dagen BloomII. PolicyMYTH #5. Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s by Yonah FreemarkMYTH #6. Mixed-Income Redevelopment Is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing by Lawrence J. ValeMYTH #7. Only Immigrants Still Live in Eu ro pe an Public Housing by Florian UrbanMYTH #8. Public Housing Is Only for Poor People by Nancy KwakIII. PeopleMYTH #9. Public Housing Residents Hate the Police by Fritz UmbachMYTH #10. Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless by Rhonda Y. WilliamsMYTH #11. Public Housing Tenants Did Not Invest in Their Neighborhoods by Lisa LevensteinNotes Acknowledgments Contributor Biographies Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB18581877
• ISBN:
  • 9780801478741
  • 9780801452048
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Ithaca
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 286 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 363.585
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Public housing -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Public housing -- Economic aspects
  • LCSH : City planning