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After the projects : public housing redevelopment and the governance of the poorest Americans /

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 affec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Public housing > United States > Case studies.
Urban renewal > United States > Case studies.
Low-income housing > United States > Case studies.
Legal assistance to the poor > United States > Case studies.
Rénovation urbaine > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Pauvres > Logement > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Aide juridique aux pauvres > États-Unis > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Legal assistance to the poor
Low-income housing
Public housing
Urban renewal
United States
Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Developing, redeveloping, and governing public housing
  • Public housing, redevelopment, and the governance of poverty
  • After urban renewal : building governance constellations
  • The big developer
  • River Garden in New Orleans : purging the poorest and satisfying the developers
  • The rise and fall of St. Thomas
  • The tortuous road from St. Thomas to River Garden
  • Inhabiting and inhibiting River Garden
  • Plebs
  • Orchard gardens in boston : hope vi without hoping the poor will leave
  • The rise of orchard Park
  • The fall of Orchard Park, the rise of Orchard Gardens
  • Publica major
  • Tucson's Posadas Sentinel: scattering the barrio without purging the poorest
  • The rise of urban renewal and the Connie Chambers project
  • The fall of Connie Chambers and the rise of Posadas Sentinel
  • Nonprofitus
  • San Francisco's North Beach Place : resisting gentrification by replacing all public housing
  • The rise and fall of North Beach Place
  • Renewing North Beach Place
  • Life at North Beach Place : a model for other places?
  • Cities of stars
  • Housing the poorest : hoping for more
  • Endnotes
  • Index.