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245 10 a| Reclaiming public housing :b| a half century of struggle in three public neighborhoods /c| Lawrence J. Vale.;

260 a| Cambridge, Mass. :b| Harvard University Press,c| 2002.;

300 a| xiii, 482 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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500 a| "This book is intended as a companion volume to From the Puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors"--Pref.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-468) and index.;

505 0 a| 1. Introduction: reclaiming public housing -- Public housing: critics and apologies -- Public neighborhoods -- Public housing as constructed communities -- The stigma of the projects -- Public housing transformations: public and private -- Public housing in Boston -- Pressures on public housing -- Three Boston public neighborhoods -- 2. West Broadway: public housing for "lower-end" whites -- South Boston's lower end before public housing -- Public housing and South Boston's lower end, 1935-1965 -- The D Street wars -- Assaults on the project -- Assaults by the press -- The residents fight back -- The fight for redevelopment -- Success and distress -- 3. Franklin Field: public housing, neighborhood abandonment, and racial transition -- Franklin Field's origins: the geography of marginality -- Housing Veterans on Franklin Field -- The long decline -- Lurching toward redevelopment -- The limits of redeveloped housing -- Accounting for failure -- 4. Commonwealth: public housing and private opportunities -- Boston's "wild west": Brighton before public housing -- Public housing on Brighton's last farm -- Fidelis way, scourge of the neighborhood -- Redevelopment partnership: a three-way street -- Assessing "success" -- 5. Reclaiming housing, recovering communities: a comparison of neighborhood struggles -- Trajectories of collapse -- Trajectories of redevelopment -- Seven kinds of success -- Expanding and applying the measures of success -- Recovering communities -- Signs of life?;

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Reclaiming public housing : a half century of struggle in three public neighborhoods / Lawrence J. Vale.

Author/creator	Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Description	xiii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Public housing--Massachusetts. --Boston. --History. Low-income housing--Massachusetts. --Boston. --History. Housing policy--Massachusetts. --Boston. --History. Poor--Massachusetts. --Boston. --History. Urban renewal--Massachusetts. --Boston. --History. Neighborhoods--Massachusetts. --Boston. --History.

Contents	1. Introduction: reclaiming public housing -- Public housing: critics and apologies -- Public neighborhoods -- Public housing as constructed communities -- The stigma of the projects -- Public housing transformations: public and private -- Public housing in Boston -- Pressures on public housing -- Three Boston public neighborhoods -- 2. West Broadway: public housing for "lower-end" whites -- South Boston's lower end before public housing -- Public housing and South Boston's lower end, 1935-1965 -- The D Street wars -- Assaults on the project -- Assaults by the press -- The residents fight back -- The fight for redevelopment -- Success and distress -- 3. Franklin Field: public housing, neighborhood abandonment, and racial transition -- Franklin Field's origins: the geography of marginality -- Housing Veterans on Franklin Field -- The long decline -- Lurching toward redevelopment -- The limits of redeveloped housing -- Accounting for failure -- 4. Commonwealth: public housing and private opportunities -- Boston's "wild west": Brighton before public housing -- Public housing on Brighton's last farm -- Fidelis way, scourge of the neighborhood -- Redevelopment partnership: a three-way street -- Assessing "success" -- 5. Reclaiming housing, recovering communities: a comparison of neighborhood struggles -- Trajectories of collapse -- Trajectories of redevelopment -- Seven kinds of success -- Expanding and applying the measures of success -- Recovering communities -- Signs of life?
General note	"This book is intended as a companion volume to From the Puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors"--Pref.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-468) and index.
LCCN	2002068598
ISBN	0674008987 (alk. paper)

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