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1 online resource (xiii, 460 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-445) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Illustrations ""; ""Tables""; ""Introduction: The “Public� in Public Housing""; ""Public Housing as an American Problem""; ""Housing the Public Neighbor""; ""Public Housing in Boston""; ""I. The Prehistory of Public Housing""; ""1 Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions""; ""The Moral Geography of Puritan Space""; ""New Institutions for Indoor Relief""; ""Tenement Reform""; ""Settlement Houses""; ""Ideal Tenement Districts""; ""2 Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities""; ""Frontier Individualism on Public Lands"" |
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""Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs""""Residential Districts""; ""Communities by Design""; ""Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors""; ""II. Public Housing in Boston""; ""3 Building Selective Collectives, 1934�1954""; ""Boston�s Selective Collectives""; ""Public Works and Private Markets""; ""Public Housing as Slum Reform""; ""Public Housing as War Production (1940�1945)""; ""Public Housing as Veterans� Assistance (1946�1954)""; ""The Authority Is Watching""; ""4 Managing Poverty and Race, 1955�1980""; ""The Geopolitics of Public Housing""; ""Urban Renewal"" |
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""Rewarding the Elderly""""The Mechanisms of Patronage""; ""Racial Discrimination and the BHA""; ""Battles within the Bureaucracy""; ""The Decline and Fall of the BHA ""; ""5 The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return""; ""The Receivership""; ""Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980s""; ""The Politics of Public Housing Preferences""; ""Getting Beyond Receivership""; ""Boston Public Housing in the 1990s""; ""Ideological Retrenchment""; ""From the Puritans to the Projects""; ""Notes""; ""Credits""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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Public housing. |
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Massachusetts -- Boston. |
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History. |
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Poor -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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Poor. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- From the puritans to the projects. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007 9780674025752 067402575X (OCoLC)159632577 |
| ISBN |
9780674044579 (electronic book) |
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0674044576 (electronic book) |
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