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How it works : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairbanks, Robert P., II, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-help housing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Self-help housing.
- Self-help housing--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Recovery movement--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Recovery movement.
- Social settlements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Social settlements.
- Welfare recipients--Housing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Welfare recipients.
- Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Alcoholics.
- Substance abuse treatment facilities--Government policy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Substance abuse treatment facilities.
- Informal sector (Economics)--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a whole, these derelict homes symbolize the city's plight in the wake of industrial decline. But a closer look reveals a remarkable new phenomenon-street-level entrepreneurs repurposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. How It Works is a compelling study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform. To find out what life is like in these recovery houses,
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The making of AHAD
- "How it works": the basic architecture of the Kensington recovery house system
- The art of building programmatic space
- The persistent (failures) of the recovery house system: low wage, labor, relapse, and the wreckage of the past
- Unruly spaces of managed persistence
- Statecraft/self-craft: policy transfer in the recovery house movement
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42638-9
- 9786612426384
- 0-226-23411-8
- OCLC:
- 526106701
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