Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy / edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- editor.

Umbach, Gregory Holcomb, editor.

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--Social aspects.

Public housing.

Public housing--Economic aspects.

City planning.

Physical Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Places

Myth #1: Public housing stands alone / Joseph Heathcott, New School University

Myth #2: Modernist architecture failed public housing / Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University

Myth #3: Public housing breeds crime / Fritz Umbach, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Alexander Gerould, San Francisco State University

Myth #4: High-rise public housing is unmanageable / Nicholas Bloom, New York Institute of Technology

Policy

Myth #5: Public housing ended in failure during the 1970s / Yonah Freemark, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago

Myth #6: Mixing incomes is necessary to "fix" public housing / Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Myth #7: Only immigrants still live in European public housing / Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art

Myth #8: Public housing is only for poor people / Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego

People

Myth #9: Public housing residents hate the police / Fritz Umbach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Myth #10: Public housing tenants are powerless / Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve

Myth #11: Public housing tenants did not invest in their neighborhoods / Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Heathcott, Joseph, 1968- . Public housing stands alone.

ISBN:

9780801452048

080145204X

9780801478741

080147874X

OCLC:

884961912