Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. City Council. Joint Standing Committees. Committee on Public Buildings
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Report on the Removal of the House of Industry and other public institutions at South Boston to Deer Island
Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. City Council. Joint Standing Committees. Committee on Public Buildings
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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From the Puritans to the Projects
Author: Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
Germs at Bay
Author: Charles Vidich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health. The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras, Germs at Bay provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and helps readers internalize the lessons learned from the pandemic. Few titles provide this level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health. The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras, Germs at Bay provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and helps readers internalize the lessons learned from the pandemic. Few titles provide this level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them.
Siting of Wastewater Treatment Facilities for Boston Harbor
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Authors and Subjects
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Ordinances and Rules and Orders of the City of Boston
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375021372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375021372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City Council
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
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The Charities Review
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
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Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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