Nancy Kwak

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A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

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Papers by Nancy Kwak

Introduction, Transnational Planning History VSI

Manila's "Danger Areas"

“Charles Abrams,” in Nicholas Bloom and Matthew Lasner, eds., Affordable Housing in New York City: Triumph, Challenge, and Opportunity (Princeton UP, 2015).

Public housing is never part of a successful urban development strategy,” in Nicholas Bloom and Lawrence Vale, eds., Public Housing Myths: Beyond Victims and Villains (Cornell UP, 2015).

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“American public housing – hardly a domestic affair,” in Joseph Heathcott, ed., Journal of the American Planning Association - Special Issue on American Public Housing at 75: Policy, Planning, and the Public Good, Vol. 78, Issue 4 (2012).

“The politics of Singapore’s fire narrative,” in Greg Bankoff, Uwe Luebken, and Jordan Sand, eds., Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011).

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“International influences on the creation of a national landscape in Singapore 1945-2000,” in Shane Ewen and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds., The Other Global City: Transnational Connections and Urban Problems in the Modern Age (London: Palgrave, 2008).

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Introduction: New Perspectives on Public Housing Histories in the Americas

by Nancy Kwak and Sean Purdy

Journal of Urban History, 2007

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Book Reviews by Nancy Kwak

Review of Robert Fairbanks, _The War on Slums in the Southwest_

Journal of American History, forthcoming

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Review: Marc Norman, "Designing Affordability: Developing New Ecosystems for Equitable Housing Provision"

Review of Marc Norman's article for the 2015 Harvard Journal of Real Estate, "Innovation in Pract... more

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Review: Abigail Perkiss, Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

Planning Perspectives, 2014

Review: Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Locked In, Locked Out

Review of Richard Ronald and Marja Elsinga, eds., Beyond Homeownership: Housing, Welfare, and Society (New York: Routledge, 2012) for Journal of Urban Affairs (2014).

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Review of Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012) for Buildings & Landscapes (2014).

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Research in urban history: recent theses on international and comparative urban history

Urban History, 2008

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Review of Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and social politics in Victorian London (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) for The London Journal 30(1): 2005.

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Review of Milton Klein, ed., The Empire State: A History of New York (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) for New York History Net, 2004.

Encyclopedia entries by Nancy Kwak

Fannie Mae

David Goldfield, ed., Encyclopedia of American Urban History, vol. 1 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub... more

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Urban Renewal and Revitalization

David Goldfield, ed., Encyclopedia of American Urban History, vol. 2 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub... more

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A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

Full introduction available here.

Download

Introduction, Transnational Planning History VSI

Manila's "Danger Areas"

“Charles Abrams,” in Nicholas Bloom and Matthew Lasner, eds., Affordable Housing in New York City: Triumph, Challenge, and Opportunity (Princeton UP, 2015).

Public housing is never part of a successful urban development strategy,” in Nicholas Bloom and Lawrence Vale, eds., Public Housing Myths: Beyond Victims and Villains (Cornell UP, 2015).

Download

Introduction: New Perspectives on Public Housing Histories in the Americas

by Nancy Kwak and Sean Purdy

Journal of Urban History, 2007

Download

Review of Robert Fairbanks, _The War on Slums in the Southwest_

Journal of American History, forthcoming

Download

Review: Marc Norman, "Designing Affordability: Developing New Ecosystems for Equitable Housing Provision"

Review of Marc Norman's article for the 2015 Harvard Journal of Real Estate, "Innovation in Pract... more

Download

Review: Abigail Perkiss, Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

Planning Perspectives, 2014

Review: Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Locked In, Locked Out

Review of Richard Ronald and Marja Elsinga, eds., Beyond Homeownership: Housing, Welfare, and Society (New York: Routledge, 2012) for Journal of Urban Affairs (2014).

Download

Review of Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012) for Buildings & Landscapes (2014).

Download

Research in urban history: recent theses on international and comparative urban history

Urban History, 2008

Download

Review of Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and social politics in Victorian London (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) for The London Journal 30(1): 2005.

Download

Review of Milton Klein, ed., The Empire State: A History of New York (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) for New York History Net, 2004.

Fannie Mae

David Goldfield, ed., Encyclopedia of American Urban History, vol. 1 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub... more

Download

Urban Renewal and Revitalization

David Goldfield, ed., Encyclopedia of American Urban History, vol. 2 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub... more

Download

Housing

James Ciment, ed., Encyclopedia of American Immigration (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2001).

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