Title & Author:

Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy / edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale.

Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015.
©2015

Description:

vi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Places -- Myth #1: Public housing stands alone / Joseph Heathcott, New School University -- Myth #2: Modernist architecture failed public housing / D. Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University -- Myth #3: Public housing breeds crime / Fritz Umbach, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Alexander Gerould, San Francisco State University -- Myth #4: High-rise public housing is unmanageable / Nicholas Dagen Bloom, New York Institute of Technology -- Policy -- Myth #5: Public housing ended in failure during the 1970s / Yonah Freemark, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago -- Myth #6: Mixed-income redevelopment is the only way to fix public housing / Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Myth #7: Only immigrants still live in European public housing / Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art -- Myth #8: Public housing is only for poor people / Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego -- People -- Myth #9: Public housing residents hate the police / Fritz Umbach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice -- Myth #10: Public housing tenants are powerless / Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve -- Myth #11: Tenants did not invest in public housing / Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Summary:

"Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing. With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally but also does so in a revisionist and provocative manner. With students in mind, Public Housing Myths is organized thematically around popular preconceptions and myths about the policies surrounding big city public housing, the places themselves, and the people who call them home. The authors challenge narratives of inevitable decline, architectural determinism, and rampant criminality that have shaped earlier accounts and still dominate public perception"--The publisher.

ISBN:

9780801452048 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080145204X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801478741 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
080147874X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public housing Social aspects.
Public housing Economic aspects.
City planning.
Logement social Aspect social.
Logement social Aspect économique.

Added entries:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- editor.
Umbach, Gregory Holcomb, editor.
Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- editor.
Heathcott, Joseph, 1968- . Public housing stands alone.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290074
Call No.: BIB 232820
Status: Available