Affordable Housing in New York

The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16781-7 (ISBN)

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How has America's most expensive and progressive city helped its residents to live? Since the nineteenth century, the need for high-quality affordable housing has been one of New York City's most urgent issues. 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. More than two dozen leading scholars tell the story of key figures of the era, including Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, and Ed Koch. 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.
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. Dolkart, Peter Eisenstadt, Richard Greenwald, Christopher Klemek, Jeffrey A. Kroessler, Nancy H. Kwak, Nadia A. Mian, Annemarie Sammartino, David Schalliol, Susanne Schindler, David Smiley, Jonathan Soffer, Fritz Umbach, and Samuel Zipp.
Featured housing complexes include: Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments * Amsterdam Houses * Bell Park Gardens * Boulevard Gardens * Co-op City * East River Houses * Eastwood * Harlem River Houses * Hughes House * Jacob Riis Houses * Johnson Houses * Marcus Garvey Village * Melrose Commons * Nehemiah Houses * Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments * Penn South * Queensbridge Houses * Queensview * Ravenswood Houses * Riverbend Houses * Rochdale Village * Schomburg Plaza * Starrett City * Stuyvesant Town * Sunnyside Gardens * Twin Parks * Via Verde * West Side Urban Renewal Area * West Village Houses * Williamsburg Houses

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is associate professor of social science and director of the Urban Administration program at New York Institute of Technology. His books include Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. 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.

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

Zusatzinfo	106 color + 142 b/w illus. 1 map.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1361 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-691-16781-8 / 0691167818
ISBN-13	978-0-691-16781-7 / 9780691167817
Zustand	Neuware