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Author Roessner, Jane, author.

Title A Decent Place To Live From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History / Jane Roessner ; [new foreword by Karilyn Crockett].

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Note Reprint of 2000 edition with new foreword.
Contents Columbia Point, 1951-1962 -- Breaking Ground at the Calf Pasture -- Promise of Public Housing -- Ignoring the Warnings -- Moving In: A Tale of Two Families -- Building a New Community -- Mothers Club -- Children of the Point: I -- Columbia Point in the Spotlight -- Columbia Point, 1962-1978 -- "Island of Isolation" -- Downhill Slide -- Housing of Last Resort -- Children of the Point: II -- Planning for Columbia Point -- Moving Out and Moving In -- News from Columbia Point -- Columbia Point, 1978-1987 -- Unlikely Partners -- Seeing Is Believing -- Court Takes Over -- Receivership -- Shotgun Marriage -- Designing the New Community -- Wrecking Ball -- Harbor Point, 1988-2000 -- Blitz -- Goodboy -- Renting and Recession -- Moving into Harbor Point -- Running the New Community -- Lessons from Harbor Point.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Urban renewal.
Public housing.
Housing policy.
City planning.
Housing policy -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- Case studies.
Massachusetts -- Boston.
History.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Public housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- Case studies.
City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- Case studies.
Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- Case studies.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books. .
Case studies.
Added Author Crockett, Karilyn, writer of foreword.
Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781555538835
1555538835