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Pages: 268
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Collecting seventy-nine oral histories from former public housing residents and staff, J. S. Fuerst's When Public Housing Was Paradise is a powerful testament t
A History of Housing in New York City
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Pages: 470
Authors: Richard Plunz
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, b
Purging the Poorest
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Pages: 446
Authors: Lawrence J. Vale
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging
The Battle for Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 53
Authors: Naomi Klein
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-05 - Publisher: Haymarket Books

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Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the ‘battle of utopias’ that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico” (Junot Díaz, author of
In Search of Paradise
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Pages: 266
Authors: Li Zhang
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migr