Reclaiming Public Housing - A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods

housing projects must be demolished and rebuilt as mixed-income neighborhoods.

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About the author

Lawrence J. Vale is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Summary

Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence J. Vale
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2002
• EAN: 9780674008984
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00898-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Weight: 798 g
• Illustrations: 58 halftones, 25 maps, 18 line illustrations
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system