From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors
by Lawrence J. Vale
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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.Tags
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Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative.
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- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sociology, History, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 363.5850974461 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Housing Programs and services Public operated housing, council housing
- LCC
- HD7288.78 .U52 .M48 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
