Integrating the inner city : the promise and perils of mixed-income public housing transformation /

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment - via the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation - has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban landscape in the last twenty years. The...

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Main Authors: Chaskin, Robert J (Author), Chaskin, Robert J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Joseph, Mark L. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Other Authors: Joseph, Mark L
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015
Chicago : [2015]
Chicago ; London : 2017
Edition:Paperback edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Concentrated poverty, public housing reform, and the promise of integration
  • Theoretical assumptions and policy orientations
  • Mixed-income development in context: urban poverty, community development, and the transformation of public housing
  • Setting the stage: the neighborhood and development site contexts
  • From physical transformation to re-creating community: development strategies and inputs
  • Does social "mix" lead to social mixing?: emergent community and the nature of social interaction
  • Space, place, and social control: surveillance, regulation, and contested community
  • Development, neighborhood, and civic life: the question of broader integration
  • The promise and perils of mixed-income public housing transformation
  • Concentrated poverty, public housing reform, and the promise of integration
  • Theoretical assumptions and policy orientations
  • Mixed-income development in context: urban poverty, community development, and the transformation of public housing
  • Setting the stage: the neighborhood and development site contexts
  • From physical transformation to re-creating community: development strategies and inputs
  • Does social mix lead to social mixing?: emergent community and the nature of social interaction
  • Space, place, and social control: surveillance, regulation, and contested community
  • Development, neighborhood, and civic life: the question of broader integration
  • The promise and perils of mixed-income public housing transformation