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Housing the nation : social equity, architecture, and the future of affordable housing /

"Scholars, advocates, and architects assess America's affordable housing crisis and suggest various strategies to rectify it, including numerous images of important, recently built houses and complexes. On any given night, more than 650,000 people in the United States--many with families and full-ti...

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Other Authors: Gorlin, Alexander (Editor), Newhouse, Victoria (Editor), Baker, Dean, 1958- (essayist.), Florida, Richard L. (essayist.), Kuttner, Robert (essayist.), Gecan, Michael (essayist.), Haggerty, Rosanne (essayist.), Thompson, J. Phillip (essayist.), Perlmutter, Margery (essayist.), Troutt, David Dante (essayist.), Steil, Justin P. (essayist.), Hawthorne, Christopher (Architectural critic) (essayist.), Burney, David J. (essayist.), McMillan, Jon (essayist.), Brahmbhatt, Viren (essayist.), Plunz, Richard (essayist.), Frampton, Kenneth (essayist.), Ginsberg, Mark (essayist.), Duany, Andres (essayist.), Ruiz, Fernando Pagés (essayist.), Holmes, Jessica (Research manager) (essayist.), Smith, Rusty, (Architecture teacher) (essayist.), Organschi, Alan (essayist.), Ruff, Andrew (essayist.), Gray, Elizabeth (Architect) (essayist.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chania: Rizzoli c2020
Subjects:
2000-2099
Housing > United States > History > 20th century.
Housing > United States > History > 21st century.
Housing policy > United States > History > 21st century.
Housing policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Homeless persons > Housing > United States.
Discrimination in housing > United States > History.
Architecture, Domestic > 21st century > Designs and plans.
Architecture, Domestic > Cost effectiveness.
Dwellings > Design and construction > Cost effectiveness.
Sustainable urban development > United States.
Racial justice > United States > 21st century.
Racial justice > United States.
Justice raciale > États-Unis > 21e siècle.
Justice raciale > États-Unis.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Habitations > Construction > Coût-efficacité.
Urbanisme durable > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
Homeless persons > Housing
Homeless persons
Racial justice
Public housing
Architecture
Housing
United States
Essays
Illustrated works
History
Essays.
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Architectural drawings.
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Table of Contents:
  • The big picture. Income inequality and affordable housing / Dean Baker
  • America's expanding housing crisis / Richard Florida
  • The case for permanent social housing / Robert Kuttner
  • Affordable housing: forgotten factors / Michael Gecan
  • The housing system and homelessness / Rosanne Haggerty
  • Racial injustice and housing. Race, housing, and democracy / J. Phillip Thompson
  • How land-use policies discriminate against people and neighborhoods / Margery Perlmutter
  • Racial bargaining for housing in Newark / David Dante Troutt
  • Climate disasters and environmental justice / Justin Steil
  • Points of view. The view from city hall: architecture, planning, and the housing crisis in Los Angeles / Christopher Hawthorne
  • What happened to NYCHA and how can we fix it? / David Burney
  • Affordable housing: view from a for-profit developer / Jon McMillan
  • Bookending affordability: notes on New York City housing / Viren Brahmbhatt and Richard Plunz
  • The death and life of Marcus Garvey Village: a case study / Kenneth Frampton and Mark Ginsberg
  • In search of solutions. Wheel estate / Andrés Duany and Fernando Pagés Ruiz
  • Rural housing: learning by doing / Jessica Holmes and Rusty Smith
  • What we must afford (some thoughts on system change in global housing) / Alan Organschi, Andrew Ruff, and Elizabeth Gray
  • Portfolio. Projects by Alexander Gorlin Architects, Bernheimer Architecture, Body Lawson Associates. Brooks+Scarpa, DPZ CoDesign, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Paulett Taggart Architects: Paulett Taggart Architects with Studio Vara, Christine Pierron and Mark Weinke, Rural Studio, Studio Gang, Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A. Daly.

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