Alternate Title
Experiments in Public Housing: Vol. 2
Keywords
architecture, housing, houisng policy
Disciplines
Architecture | Public Policy | Urban Studies
Publisher
Northeastern University
Publication Date
Fall 2011
Rights Holder
Northeastern University
Recommended Citation
Northeastern University School of Architecture, "Experiments in Public Housing: Appendix" (2011). School of Architecture Publications. Paper 5.
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Notes
Experiments in Public Housing: A Reexamination of Subsidized Housing Policy and Design published by the Northeastern University School of Architecture in Fall 2011. The second volume of two volumes, volume 2 is a catalog of mostly local precedents which act as the basis for this publication’s research.
A myriad of housing projects located in Boston’s Lower Roxbury are used as a lab for research due to its diverse mix of projects spanning many periods in housing history. A total of sixteen housing projects were isolated and analyzed, ranging from post-war construction of brick super-block developments to present day townhomes directed at individualism. Architectural plans were re-drawn according to a graphical and scaled standard so that they could be evaluated side by side of each other. In addition, text and diagrams supplement the drawings and begin to analyze the different features of each project.