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Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
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A colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants by sociologist and photographer David Schalliol put the efforts of the past century into context, and the book also looks ahead to future prospects for below-market subsidized housing. A dynamic account of an evolving city, Affordable Housing in New York is essential reading for understanding and advancing debates about how to enable future generations to call New York home.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780691197159 |
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Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Publication date: | 09/03/2019 |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Photographs by David Schalliol 15
1 Below-market Subsidized Housing Begins 35
Tenements, Andrew S. Dolkart 45
City and Suburban Homes Company, Andrew S. Dolkart 48
Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, Matthew Gordon Lasner 52
Sunnyside Gardens, Nader Vossoughian and Matthew Gordon Lasner 58
Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments, Richard Greenwald 63
Boulevard Gardens, Jeffrey A. Kroessler 67
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Nicholas Dagen Bloom 70
2 Public Neighborhoods 75
Fiorello LaGuardia, Stephen Petrus 88
Charles Abrams, Nancy H. Kwak 89
Harlem River Houses, Nicholas Dagen Bloom 91
Williamsburg Houses, Samuel Zipp and Nicholas Dagen Bloom 94
Queensbridge Houses and East River Houses, Hilary Ballon 99
Amsterdam Houses, Fritz Umbach 104
Model Gallery I: Pre-World War II 107
3 Public Housing Towers 113
Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Steven Levine 126
Jacob Riis Houses, Nicholas Dagen Bloom 128
Johnson Houses, Nicholas Dagen Bloom 131
Ravenswood Houses, Nicholas Dagen Bloom 134
4 Stabilizing the Middle 139
Stuyvesant Town, Samuel Zipp and Nicholas Dagen Bloom 151
Bell Park Gardens, Matthew Gordon Lasner 155
Queensview, Matthew Gordon Lasner 161
Abraham Kazan, Peter Eisenstadt 167
Penn Station South, Matthew Gordon Lasner 170
Rochdale Village, Peter Eisenstadt 176
Co-op City, Annemarie Sammartino 179
Starrett City, Karina Milchman 185
Model Gallery II: Post-World War II 189
5 Housing Reimagined 193
West Side Urban Renewal Area, Jennifer Hock 202
Jane Jacobs, Jennifer Hock 207
West Village Houses, Christopher Klemek 210
John Lindsay, Mariana Mogilevich 213
Riverbend Houses, David Smiley 215
Schomburg Plaza, Hilary Ballon 219
Edward J. Logue, Lizabeth Cohen 224
Twin Parks, Yonah Freemark and Susanne Schindler 226
Marcus Garvey Village, Karen Kubey 231
Eastwood, Matthias Altwicker 234
Hip Hop and Subsidized Housing, Lilian Knorr 239
6 The Decentralized Network 245
Urban Homesteading, Benjamin Holtzman 258
Roger Starr, Brian Goldstein 261
Nehemiah Houses, Nadia A. Mian 264
Abyssinian Development Corporation, Brian Goldstein 269
The Koch Housing Plan, Jonathan Soffer 273
Asian Americans for Equality, Jennifer Hock 276
Hughes House, Susanne Schindler 280
Melrose Commons and Via Verde, Susanne Schindler 283
Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities 291
Model Gallery III: Contemporary 301
Notes 307
List of Contributors 331
Index 337
Illustration Credits 351
What People are Saying About This
"With New York City's population and employment at an all-time high, the challenge of maintaining an adequate supply of affordable housing has never been greater. Covering over a century of government involvement in the production of housing, this impressive survey provides a valuable guide to understanding the range of approaches to planning and community development."—Mark A. Willis, executive director of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy"New York City has been one of the greatest homes in human history for the aspirations of newly arrived immigrants, marginalized families, striving entrepreneurs, and culturally diverse talents because the city's reformers, advocates, and activists have demanded livable and affordable housing across two centuries of city building. Bloom and Lasner have shaped a compelling story of housing innovation, urban determination, and, most importantly, essential human progress and lives touched in profound ways."—Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development"Affordable Housing in New York is an engaging account of more than a century of efforts to provide New Yorkers with below-market housing. The contributors are excellent and the extensive illustrations enhance the rich text."—Lawrence Vale, author of Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities"Highlighting the important people, places, and policies that tell the story of below-market housing in New York, this is an authoritative history of the subject."—Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota"Affordable Housing in New York is a treasure trove of profiles and photographs of the buildings, programs, and people that have long distinguished New York City as the nation's preeminent leader in providing housing for low- and moderate-income people. Whether one is an expert on housing or new to the field, this book will be an essential reference."—Alex Schwartz, author of Housing Policy in the United States