Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
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Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Special Report to the City Planning Commission, September 1957
Author: City of Berkeley Liaison Committee
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Category : Campus planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Campus planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
Publisher:
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Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Publisher:
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Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Working-Class Utopias
Author: Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691237956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later. Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan’s group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691237956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later. Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan’s group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.
The Department of State Bulletin
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Special Report - Highway Research Board
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
Publisher:
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Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Publisher:
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Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Housing and Planning References
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Housing References
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Publisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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The University and the City
Author: James W. Harvey
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Publisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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