- Illustrations
- Tables
- Introduction: The “Public” in Public Housing
- Public Housing as an American Problem
- Housing the Public Neighbor
- Public Housing in Boston
- I. The Prehistory of Public Housing
- 1. Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions
- The Moral Geography of Puritan Space
- New Institutions for Indoor Relief
- Tenement Reform
- Settlement Houses
- Ideal Tenement Districts
- 2. Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities
- Frontier Individualism on Public Lands
- Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs
- Residential Districts
- Communities by Design
- Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors
- 1. Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions
- II. Public Housing in Boston
- 3. Building Selective Collectives, 1934–1954
- Boston’s Selective Collectives
- Public Works and Private Markets
- Public Housing as Slum Reform
- Public Housing as War Production (1940–1945)
- Public Housing as Veterans’ Assistance (1946-1954)
- The Authority Is Watching
- 4. Managing Poverty and Race, 1955–1980
- The Geopolitics of Public Housing
- Urban Renewal
- Rewarding the Elderly
- The Mechanisms of Patronage
- Racial Discrimination and the BHA
- Battles within the Bureaucracy
- The Decline and Fall of the BHA
- 5. The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return
- The Receivership
- Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980s
- The Politics of Public Housing Preferences
- Getting Beyond Receivership
- Boston Public Housing in the 1990s
- Ideological Retrenchment
- From the Puritans to the Projects
- 3. Building Selective Collectives, 1934–1954
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
From the Puritans to the Projects
Public Housing and Public Neighbors
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$32.00 • £27.95 • €29.95
ISBN 9780674025752
Publication Date: 09/30/2007
Awards & Accolades
- 2001 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award, Urban Affairs Association
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