| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. By Nicholas Dagen Bloom. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. viii, 354 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4077-1.)
In 1957 the goddess of "modern" housing, Catherine Bauer, declared public housing a "dreary deadlock" (Architectural Forum, June 1957), and those who followed her—sociologists, architectural critics, and historians—only swelled the chorus. Now Nicholas Dagen Bloom seeks to alter that verdict by arguing that at least in New York City public housing policy worked.	. . .

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