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Affordable Housing in New York : The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City / ed. by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 106 color + 142 b/w illus. 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691207056
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.5/8097471 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7288.78.U52 N7185 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Photographs by David Schalliol -- 1. Below- market Subsidized Housing Begins -- Introduction -- Tenements -- City and Suburban Homes Company -- Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments -- Sunnyside Gardens -- Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments -- Boulevard Gardens -- Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch -- 2. Public Neighborhoods -- Introduction -- Fiorello LaGuardia -- Charles Abrams -- Harlem River Houses -- Williamsburg Houses -- Queensbridge Houses and East River Houses -- Amsterdam Houses -- Model Gallery I: Pre- World War II -- 3. Public Housing Towers -- Introduction -- Robert F. Wagner, Jr -- Jacob Riis Houses -- Johnson Houses -- Ravenswood Houses -- 4. Stabilizing the Middle -- Introduction -- Stuyvesant Town -- Bell Park Gardens -- Queensview -- Abraham Kazan -- Penn Station South -- Rochdale Village -- Co-op City -- Starrett City -- Model Gallery II: Post- World War II -- 5. Housing Reimagined -- Introduction -- West Side Urban Renewal Area -- Jane Jacobs -- West Village Houses -- John Lindsay -- Riverbend Houses -- Schomburg Plaza -- Edward J. Logue -- Twin Parks -- Marcus Garvey Village -- Eastwood -- Hip Hop and Subsidized Housing -- 6. The Decentralized Network -- Introduction -- Urban Homesteading -- Roger Starr -- Nehemiah Houses -- Abyssinian Development Corporation -- The Koch Housing Plan -- Asian Americans for Equality -- Hughes House -- Melrose Commons and Via Verde -- Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities -- Model Gallery III: Contemporary -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Illustration Credits
Summary: A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants by sociologist and photographer David Schalliol put the efforts of the past century into context, and the book also looks ahead to future prospects for below-market subsidized housing. A dynamic account of an evolving city, Affordable Housing in New York is essential reading for understanding and advancing debates about how to enable future generations to call New York home.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Photographs by David Schalliol -- 1. Below- market Subsidized Housing Begins -- Introduction -- Tenements -- City and Suburban Homes Company -- Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments -- Sunnyside Gardens -- Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments -- Boulevard Gardens -- Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch -- 2. Public Neighborhoods -- Introduction -- Fiorello LaGuardia -- Charles Abrams -- Harlem River Houses -- Williamsburg Houses -- Queensbridge Houses and East River Houses -- Amsterdam Houses -- Model Gallery I: Pre- World War II -- 3. Public Housing Towers -- Introduction -- Robert F. Wagner, Jr -- Jacob Riis Houses -- Johnson Houses -- Ravenswood Houses -- 4. Stabilizing the Middle -- Introduction -- Stuyvesant Town -- Bell Park Gardens -- Queensview -- Abraham Kazan -- Penn Station South -- Rochdale Village -- Co-op City -- Starrett City -- Model Gallery II: Post- World War II -- 5. Housing Reimagined -- Introduction -- West Side Urban Renewal Area -- Jane Jacobs -- West Village Houses -- John Lindsay -- Riverbend Houses -- Schomburg Plaza -- Edward J. Logue -- Twin Parks -- Marcus Garvey Village -- Eastwood -- Hip Hop and Subsidized Housing -- 6. The Decentralized Network -- Introduction -- Urban Homesteading -- Roger Starr -- Nehemiah Houses -- Abyssinian Development Corporation -- The Koch Housing Plan -- Asian Americans for Equality -- Hughes House -- Melrose Commons and Via Verde -- Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities -- Model Gallery III: Contemporary -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Illustration Credits

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A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants by sociologist and photographer David Schalliol put the efforts of the past century into context, and the book also looks ahead to future prospects for below-market subsidized housing. A dynamic account of an evolving city, Affordable Housing in New York is essential reading for understanding and advancing debates about how to enable future generations to call New York home.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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