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From the Puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors
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- Creator
- Lawrence J. Vale
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- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 067402575X, 0674002865, 9780674044579, 0674044576, 9780674002869
- OCLC
- ocm43706609, on1294425158, ocn923111372
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-448) 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