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New directions in urban public housing / edited by David P. Varady, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, Francis P. Russell.

Title
New directions in urban public housing / edited by David P. Varady, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, Francis P. Russell.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Center for Urban Policy Research, 1998.

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  • Varady, David P.
  • Preiser, Wolfgang F. E.
  • Russell, Francis P.
Description
xviii, 287 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
The chapters of this book comprise papers presented at an international forum "Future Visions of Urban Public Housing" held in Cincinnati, November 17-20, 1994.
Subject
  • Public housing > United States > Congresses
  • Public housing > Great Britain > Congresses
  • Urban policy > United States > Congresses
  • Urban policy > Great Britain > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
High ambitions : the past and future of American low-income housing policy / Alexander von Hoffman -- Mainstreaming public housing : a proposal for a comprehensive approach to housing policy / Peter Marcuse -- The meanings of resident empowerment : why just about everybody thinks it's a good idea, and what is has to do with resident management / William Peterman -- Assisted living in public housing : a case study of mixing frail elderly and younger persons with chronic mental illness and substance abuse histories / Leonard F. Heumann -- Changing values in U.S. public housing policy and design / Karen A. Franck -- An evaluation of Robert Pitts Plaza : a post-occupancy evaluation of new public housing in San Francisco / David M. Schnee -- Emerging strategies for revitalizing public housing communities / Gayle Epp -- Public housing redevelopment : seven kinds of success / Lawrence J. Vale -- Successes, failures, and prospects for public housing policy in the United Kingdom / Richard Best -- New directions for federally assisted housing : an agenda for the Department of Housing and Urban Development / Mary K. Nenno -- Gautreaux : baby steps to opportunity / Irving Welfeld -- Public housing--the next sixty years? / James G. Stockard, Jr.
ISBN
0882851608 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^97029600^
OCLC
37293395
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library