Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods
- ISBN-10
- 0674008987
- ISBN-13
- 9780674008984
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 482
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Lawrence J. Vale
Description
Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.
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