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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, editor.

Umbach, Gregory Holcomb, editor.

Vale, Lawrence J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Public housing--Economic aspects.

Public housing.

Public housing--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.Contributors: Nicholas Dagen Bloom, New York Institute of Technology; Yonah Freemark, Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council; Alexander Gerould, San Francisco State University; Joseph Heathcott, The New School; D. Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University; Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego; Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Fritz Umbach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art; Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. Places

Myth #1. Public Housing Stands Alone / Heathcott, Joseph

Myth #2. Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing / Hunt, D. Bradford

Myth #3. Public Housing Breeds Crime / Umbach, Fritz / Gerould, Alexander

Myth #4. High-Rise Public Housing is Unmanageable / Bloom, Nicholas Dagen

II. Policy

Myth #5. Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s / Freemark, Yonah

Myth #6. Mixed-Income Redevelopment is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing / Vale, Lawrence J.

Myth #7. Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing / Urban, Florian

Myth #8. Public Housing Is Only for Poor People / Kwak, Nancy

III. People

Myth #9. Public Housing Residents Hate the Police / Umbach, Fritz

Myth #10. Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless / Williams, Rhonda Y.

Myth #11. Tenants Did Not Invest in Public Housing / Levenstein, Lisa

Notes

Acknowledgments

Contributor Biographies

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780801456251

0801456258

9780801478741

080147874X

9780801456268

0801456266

OCLC:

1080549756