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Public Housing Myths : Perception, Reality, and Social Policy / ed. by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 22 halftones, 7 tables, 6 chartsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801456268
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.5/85 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7288.77
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Places -- Myth #1. Public Housing Stands Alone -- Myth #2. Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing -- Myth #3. Public Housing Breeds Crime -- Myth #4. High-Rise Public Housing is Unmanageable -- II. Policy -- Myth #5. Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s -- Myth #6. Mixed-Income Redevelopment is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing -- Myth #7. Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing -- Myth #8. Public Housing Is Only for Poor People -- III. People -- Myth #9. Public Housing Residents Hate the Police -- Myth #10. Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless -- Myth #11. Tenants Did Not Invest in Public Housing -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Places -- Myth #1. Public Housing Stands Alone -- Myth #2. Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing -- Myth #3. Public Housing Breeds Crime -- Myth #4. High-Rise Public Housing is Unmanageable -- II. Policy -- Myth #5. Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s -- Myth #6. Mixed-Income Redevelopment is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing -- Myth #7. Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing -- Myth #8. Public Housing Is Only for Poor People -- III. People -- Myth #9. Public Housing Residents Hate the Police -- Myth #10. Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless -- Myth #11. Tenants Did Not Invest in Public Housing -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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