This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries' social housing sectors…
This report looks at good practice in community development. It is the outcome of a meeting sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and held at the Bellagio Center, Italy in November 2009. It includes innovative practices and policies from ten countries.
"In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of "Red" Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 co…
'Showdown in Desire' portrays the Black Panther Party in New Orleans 1970, a year that included a shootout with the police in Piety Street, the creation of survival programs, and the daylong standoff between the Panthers and the police in the Desire housing development.