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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
- 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
- River Garden in New Orleans: Purging the Poorest and Satisfying the Developers
- 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
- Orchard Gardens in Boston: HOPE VI Without Hoping the Poor Will Leave
- 6 The Rise of Orchard Park
- 7 The Fall of Orchard Park, The Rise of Orchard Gardens
- PART FOUR: Publica Major
- Tucson's Posadas Sentinel: Scattering the Barrio Without Purging the Poorest
- 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
- San Francisco's North Beach Place: Resisting Gentrification by Replacing All Public Housing
- 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 Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative (RCHI). 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.
Summary
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.
Additional text
After the Projects is a significant addition to the literature on both public housing and urban redevelopment. The audience forthis book is broad and, because it is so well written, it is accessible to practitioners and academics (historians, political economists, and planners). The book is appropriate for graduate courses thatfocus on the history of public housing and the examination of urban redevelopment under theneoliberal policy
