Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691167818 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Matthew Gordon Lasner is associate professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century. His books include Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Nicholas Da
The book brings idealistic characters to life--from Fiorella LaGuardia to Alfred Smith, Clarence Stein, Robert Moses, Ed Logue, and Jane Jacobs--as well as lesser known, often female, pioneering housing advocates. Essential."--Jayne Merkel, Architectural Record"The historically minded book celebrates New York City's best efforts at providing low-income families a high-quality place to live. “Book Title of the Year,” as selected for Curbed’s Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review"From a housing act in 1926 to the sustainable design of Via Verde in 2012, this history painstakingly lays out the mixed success of the city's efforts to provide for its less privileged."--Avinash Rajagopal, Metropolis"Affordable Housing in New York chronicles each below-market subsidized housing project ever built in the city--an overview of t
Great primer for New Yorkers, Urban Enthusiasts and Social Caretakers Sean Khorsandi Lasner and Dagen Bloom have taken an in-depth look at Affordable Housing in New York- a topic too often ignored, but ever more pressing as the divide between the have's and the have not's intensifies. This reader is a great entry into this topic--a program that assists nearly one-in-eight of all documented New Yorkers. The book follows the inspired planning feats that propelled the program to what has cumulatively become the most ambitious--and arguably most successful program o. "Well written and beautifully illustrated" according to Adam H Tanaka. A beautifully illustrated, thoughtfully organized, and compellingly written history of affordable housing in New York City. A range of projects — iconic and obscure, public and private, old and new — are profiled from their initial planning through the present day, and accompanied by specially commissioned photographs of residents going about their daily life. This humanistic approach offers a refreshing contrast to stereotyped images of affordable housing, which ten. odg1 said Terrific book!. At a time when NYC is increasingly known for its luxury housing, its great to have a reminder that this is also a city that has historically been the most aggressive and creative in the nation at supplying affordable housing. This book does a terrific job of telling this story. A must-read book for anyone interested in either New York City of affordable housing, or both!
Over twenty-five individual housing complexes are profiled, including Queensbridge Houses, America’s largest public housing complex; Stuyvesant Town; Co-op City; and recent additions like Via Verde. Affordable Housing in New York explores the past, present, and future of the city’s pioneering efforts, from the 1920s to the major initiatives of Mayor Bill de Blasio.The book examines the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York livable, from early experiments by housing reformers and the innovative public-private solutions of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s professionalized affordable housing industry. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants put the efforts of the past century into social, political, and cultural context and look ahead to future prospects for below-market subsidized housing.A richly illustrated, dynamic portrait of an evolving city, this is a comprehensive and authoritative history of public and middle-income housing in New York and contributes significantly to contemporary debates on how to enable future generations of New Yorkers to call the city home.Contributors include: Matthias Altwicker, Hilary Ballon, Lizabeth Cohen, Andrew S. How has America's most expensive and progressive city helped its residents to live? Since the nineteenth century, the need for high-qual