After the Projects

After the Projects explores the contested politics of American public housing development and redevelopment. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale develops the concept of governance constellations to show how past, often traumatic, experience with urban renewal affects present-day housing policy and attitudes toward the poorest Americans.

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.

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
PART ONE: Developing, Redeveloping, and Governing Public Housing
1 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and the Governance of Poverty
2 After Urban Renewal: Building Governance Constellations
PART TWO: The Big Developer in New Orleans
3 The Rise and Fall of St. Thomas
4 The Tortuous Road from St. Thomas to River Garden
5 Inhabiting and Inhibiting River Garden
PART THREE: Plebs in Boston
6 The Rise of Orchard Park
7 The Fall of Orchard Park, the Rise of Orchard Gardens
PART FOUR: Publica Major in Tucson
8 The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project
9 The Fall of Connie Chambers and the Rise of Posadas Sentinel
PART FIVE: Nonprofitus in San Francisco
10 The Rise and Fall of North Beach Place
11 Renewing North Beach Place
12 Life at North Beach Place: A Model for Other Places?
PART SIX: Cities of Stars
13 Housing the Poorest: Hoping for More
Endnotes
Index