Public housing that worked
Subtitle: New York in the twentieth century
By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780812240771
Subjects: New York City Housing Authority -- History -- 20th century; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Model housing as a municipal service. Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities; title: Transforming postwar New York. The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge; title: Welfare state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency; Affordable housing; Model housing revisited; title: Appendix A. Guide to housing developments; title: Appendix B. Tenant selection policies and procedures.