Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century

Publication Data

• Title Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century
• Author Nicholas Dagen Bloom
• Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Philadelphia, Pa.
• Language English

Contents

Model housing as a municipal service. Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities
Transforming postwar New York. The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge
Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency
Affordable housing. Model housing revisited
Appendix A. Guide to housing developments
Appendix B. Tenant selection policies and procedures.

Topics

• New York City Housing Authority :: History :: 20th century
• Public housing :: New York (State) :: New York :: History :: 20th century
• City planning :: New York (State) :: New York :: History :: 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) :: Social conditions :: 20th century
• New York (N.Y.)

Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century by Nicholas Dagen Bloom. ISBN 9780812240771. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.