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Boston (Harvard Studies in Urban History) by MartinMeyerson, Edward C. Banfield Hardcover, 130 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-42121-9, ISBN: 0-674-42121-3
Housing, People, and Cities (Paperback) by MartinMeyerson Paperback, 410 Pages, Published 2012 by Hardpress Publishing, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-290-10927-7, ISBN: 1-290-10927-3
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"Catherine Bauer (1905–64) changed forever the concept of public housing in the United States―and inspired a generation of urban activists to include housing in welfare planning in the mid-20th century. She was one of a small group of idealists who called themselves Housers because of their commitment to raising the quality of urban life through improving shelter for low-income families.In the late 1920s, Bauer spent time in Paris, where ..."
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Boston(1st Edition) The Job Ahead (Joint Center for Urban Studies Publicati) by MartinMeyerson, Edward C. Banfield Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1974 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-07960-1, ISBN: 0-674-07960-4
"Describes a complicated system of inter-related elements which make up the Boston metropolitan area; chapters discuss topics such as city government, taxation, Boston's relationship to its suburbs, traffic and transit, freight transport, ..."
"This book is a detailed account of how some important decisions were reached in deciding the location of public housing projects in Chicago, in the post-WWII era. As the beginning quotation by the National Public Housing Conference reads, "If we in America with all our resources cannot even solve our own housing problem, what hope is there?" Good question still."