Main entry:

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-

Title & Author:

From the puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors / Lawrence J. Vale.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Description:

xiii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : The "public" in public housing -- pt. 1. The prehistory of public housing -- Coping with the poor : techniques and institutions -- Rewarding upward mobility : public lands, private houses, and new communities -- pt. 2. Public housing in Boston -- Building selective collectives, 1934-1954 -- Managing poverty and race, 1955-1980 -- The Boston Housing Authority since 1980 : the Puritans return.

Summary:

This title is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.

ISBN:

9780674025752 (pbk.)
067402575X (pbk.)
9780674002869
0674002865

Subject:

Public housing Massachusetts Boston History.
Poor Massachusetts Boston History.
Logement social Massachusetts Boston Histoire.
Pauvres Massachusetts Boston Histoire.
Poor.
Public housing.
Massachusetts Boston.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253279
Call No.: BIB 183002
Status: Available