Download or read book Atlantic City and Public Housing written by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atlantic City and Public Housing written by Writers' Program (U.S.). New Jersey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inventory of Existing Public and Private Subsidized Housing Developments for Atlantic City written by Atlantic City Housing Authority and Urban Redevelopment Agency and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Affordable Housing in New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boardwalk of Dreams written by Bryant Simon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay for a mere six hours, and the highway has replaced the Boardwalk as the city's most important thoroughfare. Today the city doesn't have a single movie theater and its one supermarket is a virtual fortress protected by metal detectors and security guards. In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic City's rise, near death, and reincarnation. He turns the depiction of middle-class vacationers into a revealing discussion of the boundaries of public space in urban America. In the past, he argues, the public was never really about democracy, but about exclusion. During Atlantic City's heyday, African Americans were kept off the Boardwalk and away from the beaches. The overly boisterous or improperly dressed were kept out of theaters and hotel lobbies by uniformed ushers and police. The creation of Atlantic City as the "Nation's Playground" was dependent on keeping undesirables out of view unless they were pushing tourists down the Boardwalk on rickshaw-like rolling chairs or shimmying in smoky nightclubs. Desegregation overturned this racial balance in the mid-1960s, making the city's public spaces more open and democratic, too open and democratic for many middle-class Americans, who fled to suburbs and suburban-style resorts like Disneyworld. With the opening of the first casino in 1978, the urban balance once again shifted, creating twelve separate, heavily guarded, glittering casinos worlds walled off from the dilapidated houses, boarded-up businesses, and lots razed for redevelopment that never came. Tourists are deliberately kept away from the city's grim reality and its predominantly poor African American residents. Despite ten of thousands of buses and cars rolling into every day, gambling has not saved Atlantic City or returned it to its glory days. Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, and history.

Download or read book Public Housing written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conveyance of Lighthouse Property Atlantic City New Jersey written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Housing and Casinos in Atlantic City written by New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Legislative Oversight Committee and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Transformation of America s Public Housing written by Henry Cisneros and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Housing in New Jersey written by Alan Mallach and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Casinos and Housing written by Hubert Danford Maultsby and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Affordable Housing in New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Study and Investigation of Housing written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HUD Challenge written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Population and Demographic Field Survey Final Report Prepared for the Atlantic City Housing Authority written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantic County Improvement Authority conducted a survey of available housing stock in the area and an analysis of the condition of all structures. The South Jersey Center for Public Affairs at Stockton State College was commissioned to conduct a large scale survey of the area to determine the demographic characteristics of the current residents.

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Download or read book There s No Place Like Home written by Anna Lou Dehavenon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter—one of the most basic elements of human adaptation—now experienced by many Americans. Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic human right in the world's richest, most advanced nation, the authors of these essays look more closely than others have yet done at the causes of the current low-income housing crisis and homelessness. Ten anthropologists and a mental health worker use participant observation and other ethnographic methods to observe and document the experiential and geographic diversity of U.S. homelessness. Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area—urban, suburban, or rural—and a specific category of homeless people—families with children, solitary adults, or both. Based on their findings, the authors also present policy recommendations to ameliorate the housing shortage and prevent homelessness at local, state, and federal levels.