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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing -- I The Prehistory of Public Housing -- 1 Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions -- 2 Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities -- II Public Housing in Boston -- 3 Building Selective Collectives, 1934–1954 -- 4 Managing Poverty and Race, 1955–1980 -- 5 The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return -- Notes -- Credits -- Index

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

Public housing, design politics, and twice-cleared communities -- Public housing and private initiative : developing Atlanta's Techwood and Clark Howell homes -- Redeveloping Techwood and Clark Howell : the purges of progress -- Up from little hell : developing Chicago's Frances Cabrini homes -- Urban renewal and the rise of Cabrini-Green -- Staving off collapse : mediated violence and the beginning of Cabrini's end -- Bringing the Gold Coast to the slum : Cabrini-Green's redevelopment and the litigation of inclusion -- Conclusion : public housing and the margins of empathy

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing -- Public Housing as an American Problem -- Housing the Public Neighbor -- Public Housing in Boston -- I. The Prehistory of Public Housing -- 1 Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions -- The Moral Geography of Puritan Space -- New Institutions for Indoor Relief -- Tenement Reform -- Settlement Houses -- Ideal Tenement Districts -- 2 Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities -- Frontier Individualism on Public Lands -- Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs -- Residential Districts -- Communities by Design -- Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors -- II. Public Housing in Boston -- 3 Building Selective Collectives, 1934-1954 -- Boston's Selective Collectives -- Public Works and Private Markets -- Public Housing as Slum Reform -- Public Housing as War Production (1940-1945) -- Public Housing as Veterans' Assistance (1946-1954) -- The Authority Is Watching -- 4 Managing Poverty and Race, 1955-1980 -- The Geopolitics of Public Housing -- Urban Renewal -- Rewarding the Elderly -- The Mechanisms of Patronage -- Racial Discrimination and the BHA -- Battles within the Bureaucracy -- The Decline and Fall of the BHA -- 5 The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return -- The Receivership -- Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980s -- The Politics of Public Housing Preferences -- Getting Beyond Receivership -- Boston Public Housing in the 1990s -- Ideological Retrenchment -- From the Puritans to the Projects -- Notes -- Credits -- Index.

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Over the years, public housing has evolved into a phenomenon of a less than desirable aspect of urban existence. It is part of the urban mystique reflected in media depictions as a place of crime and discontent. This essay, written by a scholar of urban planning and design, examines public housing not simply as something reported in the news but rather as a dynamic communication environment. The role of communication in the construction of public perceptions and community identity are explored as it functions in this highly stigma-laden locale. The process of socially constructed meaning for insiders and outsiders is examined within the context of this unique and problem-ridden urban environment.