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Author Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

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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 Moore Stacks  HD7288.78.U52 N726 2008    Available  ---
Description viii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
Subject Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Public housing.
New York (State) -- New York.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject New York City Housing Authority -- History -- 20th century.
New York City Housing Authority.
City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
City planning.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
National Book Committee.
Social conditions.
ISBN 9780812240771 alkaline paper
0812240774 alkaline paper

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