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After the Projects explores the contested politics of American public housing development and redevelopment. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale develops the concept of governance constellations to show how past, often traumatic, experience with urban renewal affects present-day housing policy and attitudes toward the poorest Americans.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART ONE: Developing, Redeveloping, and Governing Public Housing
- 1 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and the Governance of Poverty
- 2 After Urban Renewal: Building Governance Constellations
- PART TWO: The Big Developer in New Orleans
- 3 The Rise and Fall of St. Thomas
- 4 The Tortuous Road from St. Thomas to River Garden
- 5 Inhabiting and Inhibiting River Garden
- PART THREE: Plebs in Boston
- 6 The Rise of Orchard Park
- 7 The Fall of Orchard Park, the Rise of Orchard Gardens
- PART FOUR: Publica Major in Tucson
- 8 The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project
- 9 The Fall of Connie Chambers and the Rise of Posadas Sentinel
- PART FIVE: Nonprofitus in San Francisco
- 10 The Rise and Fall of North Beach Place
- 11 Renewing North Beach Place
- 12 Life at North Beach Place: A Model for Other Places?
- PART SIX: Cities of Stars
- 13 Housing the Poorest: Hoping for More
- Endnotes
- Index
About the author
Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative. Vale is the author or editor of ten previous books examining urban design, housing and planning, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing, and the co-edited book The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster.
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After the Projects explores the contested politics of American public housing development and redevelopment. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale develops the concept of governance constellations to show how past, often traumatic, experience with urban renewal affects present-day housing policy and attitudes toward the poorest Americans.
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After the Projects, one of the best books I have read in recent years, makes major contributions to existing understanding about mixed-income housing and poverty governance. Anyone who is interested in the future of public housing should read it." -David Varady, Journal of the American Planning Association
