Katherine Levine Einstein, David M Glick, Maxwell Palmer

Neighborhood Defenders

Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"On October 18, 2016, the Cambridge Massachusetts Planning Board met, as they do every two weeks, to consider applications for new residential and commercial developments. Among other proposals, they examined an application from a developer who sought to convert a commercial warehouse on Regent Street into four residential units"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477277
• ISBN-10: 1108477275
• Artikelnr.: 58022820

Autorenporträt

Katherine Levine Einstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Initiative on Cities at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Neighborhood defenders and the power of delay
3. Land use regulations and multifamily housing development
4. Land use regulations and public input
5. Who are the neighborhood defenders?
6. Neighborhood defense tactics
7. Gentrification, affordable housing, and housing reform
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.