Title & Author:

Affordable housing in New York : the people, places, and policies that transformed a city / edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner ; with photographs by David Schalliol.

Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Description:

xiii, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Below-market Subsidized Housing Begins: Tenements / Andrew S. Dolkart -- City and Suburban Homes Company / Andrew S. Dolkart -- Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Sunnyside Gardens / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments / Richard Greenwald -- Boulevard Gardens / Jeffrey A. Kroessler -- Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- 2. Public Neighborhoods: Fiorello LaGuardia / Stephen Petrus -- Charles Abrams / Nancy H. Kwak -- Harlem River Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Williamsburg Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Queensbridge Houses and East River Houses / Hilary Ballon -- Amsterdam Houses / Fritz Umbach -- Model Gallery I Pre-World War II -- 3. Public Housing Towers: Robert F. Wagner, Jr. / Steven Levine -- Jacob Riis Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Johnson Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Ravenswood Houses / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- 4. Stabilizing the Middle: Stuyvesant Town / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Bell Park Gardens / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Queensview / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Abraham Kazan / Peter Eisenstadt -- Venn Station South / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- Rochdale Village / Peter Eisenstadt -- Co-op City / Annemarie Sammartino -- Starrett City / Karina Milchman -- Model Gallery II Post-World War II -- 5. Housing Reimagined: West Side Urban Renewal Area / Jennifer Hock -- Jane Jacobs / Jennifer Hock -- West Village Houses / Christopher Klemek -- John Lindsay / Mariana Mogilevich -- Riverbend Houses / David Smiley -- Schomburg Plaza / Hilary Ballon -- Edward J. Logue / Lizabeth Cohen -- Twin Parks / Susanne Schindler -- Marcus Garvey Village / Karen Kubey -- Eastwood / Matthias Altwicker -- Hip Hop and Subsidized Housing / Lilian Knorr -- 6. The Decentralized Network: Urban Homesteading / Benjamin Holtzman -- Roger Starr / Brian Goldstein -- Nehemiah Houses / Nadia A. Mian -- Abyssinian Development Corporation / Brian Goldstein -- The Koch Housing Plan / Jonathan Soffer -- Asian Americans for Equality / Jennifer Hock -- Hughes House / Susanne Schindler -- Melrose Commons and Via Verde / Susanne Schindler -- Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities: Model Gallery III Contemporary.

Summary:

How has America's most expensive and progressive city helped its residents to live? Since the nineteenth century, the need for high-quality affordable housing has been one of New York City's most urgent issues. Affordable Housing in New York explores the past, present, and future of the city's pioneering efforts, from the 1920s to the major initiatives of Mayor Bill de Blasio. The book examines the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York livable, from early experiments by housing reformers and the innovative public-private solutions of the 1970s and 1980s to today's professionalized affordable housing industry. More than two dozen leading scholars tell the story of key figures of the era, including Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, and Ed Koch. Over twenty-five individual housing complexes are profiled, including Queensbridge Houses, America's largest public housing complex; Stuyvesant Town; Co-op City; and recent additions like Via Verde.--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780691167817 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691167818 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780691197159 (paperback)
0691197156 (paperback)

Subject:

Public housing New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Low-income housing New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Housing policy New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Logement social New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Pauvres Logement New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Logement Politique gouvernementale New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Housing policy.
Low-income housing.
Public housing.
Wohnungsbau
Wohnungspolitik
Allmännyttiga bostadsföretag.
Bostadspolitik historia.
New York (State) New York.
New York

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-
Lasner, Matthew Gordon.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291850
Call No.: BIB 235661
Status: Available