A Decent Place To Live : From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History / Jane Roessner ; [new foreword by Karilyn Crockett].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2019]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2019]Description: 1 online resource (332 pages): illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781555538835
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Contents:
Columbia Point, 1951-1962 -- Breaking Ground at the Calf Pasture -- The Promise of Public Housing -- Ignoring the Warnings -- Moving In: A Tale of Two Families -- Building a New Community -- The Mothers Club -- Children of the Point: I -- Columbia Point in the Spotlight -- Columbia Point, 1962-1978 -- "Island of Isolation" -- The Downhill Slide -- Housing of Last Resort -- Children of the Point: II -- Planning for Columbia Point -- Moving Out and Moving In -- The News from Columbia Point -- Columbia Point, 1978-1987 -- Unlikely Partners -- Seeing Is Believing -- The Court Takes Over -- Receivership -- Shotgun Marriage -- Designing the New Community -- The Wrecking Ball -- Harbor Point, 1988-2000 -- The Blitz -- Goodboy -- Renting and Recession -- Moving into Harbor Point -- Running the New Community -- Lessons from Harbor Point.
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Reprint of 2000 edition with new foreword.

Columbia Point, 1951-1962 -- Breaking Ground at the Calf Pasture -- The Promise of Public Housing -- Ignoring the Warnings -- Moving In: A Tale of Two Families -- Building a New Community -- The Mothers Club -- Children of the Point: I -- Columbia Point in the Spotlight -- Columbia Point, 1962-1978 -- "Island of Isolation" -- The Downhill Slide -- Housing of Last Resort -- Children of the Point: II -- Planning for Columbia Point -- Moving Out and Moving In -- The News from Columbia Point -- Columbia Point, 1978-1987 -- Unlikely Partners -- Seeing Is Believing -- The Court Takes Over -- Receivership -- Shotgun Marriage -- Designing the New Community -- The Wrecking Ball -- Harbor Point, 1988-2000 -- The Blitz -- Goodboy -- Renting and Recession -- Moving into Harbor Point -- Running the New Community -- Lessons from Harbor Point.

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