基本説明
A YBP Library Services Bestselling Professional Titles, 2nd quarter 2003. This book questions the conventional wisdom that all large public housing projects must be demolished and rebuilt as mixed-income neighborhoods.
Full Description
In Reclaiming Public Housing, Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.
The three similarly designed projects were built at the same time under the same government program and experienced similar declines. Each received comparable funding for redevelopment, and each design team consisted of first-rate professionals who responded with similar "defensible space" redesign plans. Why, then, was one redevelopment effort a nationally touted success story, another only a mixed success, and the third a widely acknowledged failure? The book answers this key question by situating each effort in the context of specific neighborhood struggles. In each case, battles over race and poverty played out somewhat differently, yielding wildly different results.
At a moment when local city officials throughout America are demolishing more than 100,000 units of low-income housing, this crucial book questions the conventional wisdom that all large public housing projects must be demolished and rebuilt as mixed-income neighborhoods.
Contents
Preface Figures and Tables 1. Introduction: Reclaiming Public Housing Public Housing: Critics and Apologists 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? Note on Literature and Methods Notes Credits Index
