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"A Decent Place to Live" chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of Columbia Point—a Boston housing project built in in the early 1950s for working-class families. By the mid-1970s, the model community had disintegrated and become a symbol of failure, danger, and decay. Redeveloped as Harbor Point, the complex was reborn in 1988 as a successful mixed-income, racially diverse community. Told through the voices of those who struggled to make a life there, and battled to rebuild their community, "A Decent Place to Live" offers important lessons for urban planners and policymakers nationwide.
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This is a second edition of "A Decent Place to Live," which was first published in 2000. We have added a new foreword by Lawrence J. Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Planning and Design at MIT. More to the point,we wanted this history to be available to anyone who wants to study the successful revitalization of an urban community. This is one housing complex that was not allowed to expire, but rather it was saved by the coming together of community and developers to rescue and reuse a valuable urban space. Its lessons are important too anyone working in the field of Urban Renewal.
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"A Decent Place to Live has properly put resident voices back at the center of public housing scholarship. It has documented the early successes of subsequently vilified places, and has revealed the social, cultural, political, and financial complexity of what it takes to return such places to desirable living environments." --Lawrence J. Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, MIT
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- PublisherCalf Pasture Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0998954403
- ISBN 13 9780998954400
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages332
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