| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods. By Lawrence J. Vale. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv, 482 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00898-7.)

In a companion volume to his From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (2000), Professor Lawrence J. Vale offers a detailed and multilayered analysis of the history of three Boston public housing projects—West Broadway, Franklin Field, and Commonwealth. This interdisciplinary study not only relies on traditional archival sources such as the Boston Housing Authority Records and the John F. Collins Papers but uses more than three hundred interviews with public housing residents. Borrowing from his earlier volume, which explored the variety of ways the poor had been accommodated in Boston since the seventeenth century and how that reflected certain ambiguous attitudes toward the poor as public neighbors, this book details the impact of those ambiguous attitudes on specific public housing projects while also investigating "the complex interplay between design and policy, between institutional structures and resident activism, and between historically grounded antagonisms and future prospects" (p. 4).

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