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The Politics of Joint University and Community Housing Development - Cambridge, Boston, and Beyond (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Joint University and Community Housing Development - Cambridge, Boston, and Beyond (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Joint University and Community Housing Development:
Cambridge, Boston, and Beyond informs and encourages the
understanding and creation of community/university housing. It
reveals the political and technical dynamics of joint housing
development involving both communities and universities.
Community/university housing projects have been built in several
cities and planned in others. Since Cambridge, Masschusetts, home
of Harvard and MIT, contains outstanding examples of
community/university housing, the book focuses on the projects
there since the 1960s. It also discusses a major project in Mission
Hill near Harvard Medical School in Boston, along with brief
examinations of a number of other projects. Through the Cambridge
and Boston cases, the author explores the historical, political,
and economic reasons for developing community housing. There,
residents asked the universities to help solve the city housing
problems to which the institutions had contributed. Since community
housing involved a process, as well as a result in describing how
the housing was built, the book focuses on the role of community
participation in the development process. The study contributes to
the understanding of the issues in several ways. First, two people
well acquainted with community/university housing and politics
introduce the study with introductory forewords. Second, the study
provides details of the development process that will be useful to
other community/university groups. Third, it explores university
responsibility, rhetoric versus reality, and the educational values
of community housing participation. Fourth, it provides ideas,
methods, models and assurances that new things can be done, because
they have been done. Finally, the lessons and suggestions provide
insights and inspiration for others. This study will be
particularly helpful for other cities and university/communities
encountering housing problems. The features and information here
will interest a wide range of community, university, and other
urban groups. The issues discussed will become increasingly
relevant as more people move into attractive areas near
universities. It is also pertinent to institutions like hospitals
that also have community and housing problems, and to civic groups
that can help solve a range of housing problems. This book explains
the politics of community/university housing development in ways
that encourage others to address and solve similar problems.
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