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Author Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- author.

Title Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
2008

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Description 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-348) and index.
Contents 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 -- 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 -- Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency -- Affordable housing. Model housing revisited -- Appendix A. Guide to housing developments -- Appendix B. Tenant selection policies and procedures.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Public housing that worked : New York in the 20th century
Other Form: Print version: Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008] viii, 354 pages ; 24 cm 9780812220674 (OCoLC)ocn183261869 (DLC)10904654
ISBN 9780812240771 (alk. paper)
0812240774 (alk. paper)
9780812220674
9780812201321 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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