From The Puritans To The Projects

Author : Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674044579

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From the Puritans to the Projects by Lawrence J. Vale Pdf

From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.

Author : Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0674008987

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Reclaiming Public Housing by Lawrence J. Vale Pdf

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.

Author : Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
ISBN : 9780190624330

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After the Projects by Lawrence J. Vale Pdf

America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public housing projects. In After the Projects, Lawrence Vale investigates the deeply-rooted spatial politics of public housing development and redevelopment at a time when lower-income Americans face a desperate struggle to find affordable rental housing in many cities. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with public housing residents, real estate developers, and community leaders, Vale analyzes the different ways in which four major American cities implemented the federal government's HOPE VI program for public housing transformation, while also providing a national picture of this program. Some cities attempted to minimize the presence of the poorest residents in their new mixed-income communities, but other cities tried to serve as many low-income households as possible. Through examining the social, political, and economic forces that underlie housing displacement, Vale develops the novel concept of governance constellations. He shows how the stars align differently in each city, depending on community pressures that have evolved in response to each city's past struggles with urban renewal. This allows disparate key players to gain prominence when implementing HOPE VI redevelopment. A much-needed comparative approach to the existing research on public housing, After the Projects shines a light on the broad variety of attitudes towards public housing redevelopment in American cities and identifies ways to achieve more equitable processes and outcomes for low-income Americans.

Author : Claire Dunning
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226819914

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Nonprofit Neighborhoods by Claire Dunning Pdf

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits serving a range of municipal and cultural needs are now so ubiquitous in US cities, it can be difficult to envision a time when they were more limited in number, size, and influence. Turning back the clock, however, uncovers both an illuminating story of how the nonprofit sector became such a dominant force in American society, as well as a troubling one of why this growth occurred alongside persistent poverty and widening inequality. Claire Dunning’s book connects these two stories in histories of race, democracy, and capitalism, revealing how the federal government funded and deputized nonprofits to help individuals in need, and in so doing avoided addressing the structural inequities that necessitated such action in the first place. Nonprofit Neighborhoods begins after World War II, when suburbanization, segregation, and deindustrialization inaugurated an era of urban policymaking that applied private solutions to public problems. Dunning introduces readers to the activists, corporate executives, and politicians who advocated addressing poverty and racial exclusion through local organizations, while also raising provocative questions about the politics and possibilities of social change. The lessons of Nonprofit Neighborhoods exceed the bounds of Boston, where the story unfolds, providing a timely history of the shift from urban crisis to urban renaissance for anyone concerned about American inequality—past, present, or future.

Author : Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Low-income housing
ISBN : OCLC:41387082

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Public Housing and Public Neighbors by Lawrence J. Vale Pdf

Author : History Project (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0807079499

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Improper Bostonians by History Project (Boston, Mass.) Pdf

Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston's three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and--since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history--the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015050207755

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Clearinghouse Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dawn Day Biehler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295804866

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Pests in the City by Dawn Day Biehler Pdf

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. Community activists and social reformers strived to control pests in cities such as Washington, DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Milwaukee, but such efforts fell short when authorities blamed families and neighborhood culture for infestations rather than attacking racial segregation or urban disinvestment. Pest-control campaigns tended to target public or private spaces, but pests and pesticides moved readily across the porous boundaries between homes and neighborhoods. This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color. As Biehler shows, urban pests have remained a persistent problem at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice, even amid promises of modernity and sustainability in American cities. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9PFxLY7K4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw

Author : Nikolina Bobic,Farzaneh Haghighi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000774115

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The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I by Nikolina Bobic,Farzaneh Haghighi Pdf

For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently, architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event and therefore incapable of performing any political role. This handbook explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems – from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change – this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frames cutting-edge contemporary debates and presents studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This Handbook will be of interest to anyone seeking to meaningfully disrupt the reduction of space to an oppressive or neutral backdrop of political realities.

Author : Society of Architectural Historians
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047958650

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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians by Society of Architectural Historians Pdf

Includes special issues.

Author : Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH,Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674044654

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American Project by Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH,Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Pdf

High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out, and to salvage its troubled legacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Historical journal of Western Massachusetts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213178853

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Historical Journal of Massachusetts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226012315

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Purging the Poorest by Lawrence J. Vale Pdf

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.” In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country’s first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale’s groundbreaking history of these “twice-cleared” communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of America’s most famous housing projects: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green and Atlanta’s Techwood /Clark Howell Homes. Vale offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing residents, and reconsiders the role of design and designers.

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674987999

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.

Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 9781783271108

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Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs by Mark Goldie Pdf

Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent era of later Stuart rule.