Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
368 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 illus.
Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4077-1 | $39.95 | £26.00
Paper Feb 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2067-4 | $24.95 | £16.50
"Highly recommended."–Choice
"While high-rise public housing in the United States is widely regarded as a disaster, the experiment in New York City has thrived for more than seventy years. Nicholas Bloom's well-written, well-researched, and well-illustrated work provides the most sophisticated answers yet to this American paradox."–Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University
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