A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point: A Community History

Acknowledged authors Roessner, Jane wrote A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point: A Community History comprising 332 pages back in 2017. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0998954403 and 9780998954400. Since then A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point: A Community History textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

"A Decent Place to Live" chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of Columbia Point—a Boston housing project built in in the early 1950s for working-class families. By the mid-1970s, the model community had disintegrated and become a symbol of failure, danger, and decay. Redeveloped as Harbor Point, the complex was reborn in 1988 as a successful mixed-income, racially diverse community. Told through the voices of those who struggled to make a life there, and battled to rebuild their community, "A Decent Place to Live" offers important lessons for urban planners and policymakers nationwide.