Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative. Vale is the author or editor of ten previous books examining urban design, housing and planning, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing, and the co-edited book The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations PART ONE: Developing, Redeveloping, and Governing Public Housing1 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and the Governance of Poverty2 After Urban Renewal: Building Governance Constellations PART TWO: The Big Developer in New Orleans3 The Rise and Fall of St. Thomas4 The Tortuous Road from St. Thomas to River Garden 5 Inhabiting and Inhibiting River Garden PART THREE: Plebs in Boston6 The Rise of Orchard Park7 The Fall of Orchard Park, the Rise of Orchard Gardens PART FOUR: Publica Major in Tucson8 The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project9 The Fall of Connie Chambers and the Rise of Posadas Sentinel PART FIVE: Nonprofitus in San Francisco10 The Rise and Fall of North Beach Place11 Renewing North Beach Place12 Life at North Beach Place: A Model for Other Places? PART SIX: Cities of Stars13 Housing the Poorest: Hoping for More EndnotesIndex

How we house the most needy is a clear barometer of our success and failure as a culture. Lawrence Vale has given us both the potential heaven and hell of this defining social nexus as well as a sense of the huge stakes at play." -Ken Burns, Filmmaker

Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative. Vale is the author or editor of ten previous books examining urban design, housing and planning, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing, and the co-edited book The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations PART ONE: Developing, Redeveloping, and Governing Public Housing1 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and the Governance of Poverty2 After Urban Renewal: Building Governance Constellations PART TWO: The Big Developer in New Orleans3 The Rise and Fall of St. Thomas4 The Tortuous Road from St. Thomas to River Garden 5 Inhabiting and Inhibiting River Garden PART THREE: Plebs in Boston6 The Rise of Orchard Park7 The Fall of Orchard Park, the Rise of Orchard Gardens PART FOUR: Publica Major in Tucson8 The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project9 The Fall of Connie Chambers and the Rise of Posadas Sentinel PART FIVE: Nonprofitus in San Francisco10 The Rise and Fall of North Beach Place11 Renewing North Beach Place12 Life at North Beach Place: A Model for Other Places? PART SIX: Cities of Stars13 Housing the Poorest: Hoping for More EndnotesIndex

How we house the most needy is a clear barometer of our success and failure as a culture. Lawrence Vale has given us both the potential heaven and hell of this defining social nexus as well as a sense of the huge stakes at play." -Ken Burns, Filmmaker

Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative. Vale is the author or editor of ten previous books examining urban design, housing and planning, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing, and the co-edited book The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations PART ONE: Developing, Redeveloping, and Governing Public Housing1 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and the Governance of Poverty2 After Urban Renewal: Building Governance Constellations PART TWO: The Big Developer in New Orleans3 The Rise and Fall of St. Thomas4 The Tortuous Road from St. Thomas to River Garden 5 Inhabiting and Inhibiting River Garden PART THREE: Plebs in Boston6 The Rise of Orchard Park7 The Fall of Orchard Park, the Rise of Orchard Gardens PART FOUR: Publica Major in Tucson8 The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project9 The Fall of Connie Chambers and the Rise of Posadas Sentinel PART FIVE: Nonprofitus in San Francisco10 The Rise and Fall of North Beach Place11 Renewing North Beach Place12 Life at North Beach Place: A Model for Other Places? PART SIX: Cities of Stars13 Housing the Poorest: Hoping for More EndnotesIndex

How we house the most needy is a clear barometer of our success and failure as a culture. Lawrence Vale has given us both the potential heaven and hell of this defining social nexus as well as a sense of the huge stakes at play." -Ken Burns, Filmmaker