| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 479 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 affects present-day housing policy and attitudes toward the poorest Americans |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Public housing -- United States -- Case studies
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Urban renewal -- United States -- Case studies
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Low-income housing -- United States -- Case studies
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Legal assistance to the poor -- United States -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Legal assistance to the poor
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Low-income housing
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Public housing
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Urban renewal
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190624347 |
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0190624345 |
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9780190624361 |
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0190624361 |
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9780190624354 |
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0190624353 |
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