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Roessner, Jane,

A Decent Place To Live From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History / Jane Roessner ; [new foreword by Karilyn Crockett]. - 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9781555538835 1555538835

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Urban renewal.
Public housing.
Housing policy.
City planning.
Housing policy--History--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
Public housing--History--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
City planning--History--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
Urban renewal--History--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Massachusetts--Boston.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.