 | Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century Subjects: Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; New York City Housing Authority -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th c; Public Housing That Worked offers a comprehensive history of America's largest and most successful housing authority. The New York City Housing Authority pioneered, and still maintains, rigorous systems of public housing management that allowed it to avoid the downward spiral experienced by most American public housing authorities. Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at the New York Institute of Technology and author of Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia. |
