| 单词 | urban renewal |
| 例句 | Alongside the neat gray wharf sheds that lined the river and canal across the railroad tracks, Lew Pants huddled, a silent and smoky plea for urban renewal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Entire neighborhoods disappeared into the insatiable maw of urban renewal, displacing residents into an already tight housing market. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Their leaders had been unable to stop urban renewal from rumbling through the heart of the black community like a tank overrunning an enemy redoubt. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The influx of federal urban renewal money was supposed to be a coup for Durham’s poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Such areas pockmarked the landscape, as urban renewal chewed its way through black Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When they built the expressways and had urban renewal, they destroyed a lot of that housing and built these high-rise buildings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When urban renewal tore down my parents’ laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Greenberg, who already owned a similar number of houses in the section, was expanding his holdings to exploit the housing crunch caused by urban renewal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z An estimated 50,000 buildings are set to be demolished in an "urban renewal" project to make the city safe from earthquakes. Gentrification tears at Istanbul's historically diverse fabric 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Similar to the urban renewal policies of the 1950s and 60s in American cities, Halifax decided to relocate the residents of Africville in order to build commercial and industrial districts in the area. A Journey Through Black Nova Scotia 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z For many locals, on the other hand, it represented a clear takeover of their streets by outside interests, a new brand of urban renewal hiding beneath celebrity architecture's endlessly diverting cloak. No shortage of architectural head-scratchers 2010-12-20T17:57:04Z “We’re potentially on track for urban renewal Part 2,” she said. Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He was touring with other Canadian architecture students, seeing United States landmarks, but what made a real impression was seeing block after block of “cruel” urban renewal. Washington?s Fresh Coat of Greasepaint 2010-10-10T01:30:00Z Municipalities throughout the country introduced the then-exotic geese into local parks as the urban renewal projects of the 1950s created ideal goose habitat. Dogs may be recruited in war on Portland goose poop 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Sadly, East Freemason didn’t fare as well as West Freemason during the days of urban renewal. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z He says his house was torn down in 1957 or 1958 as part of urban renewal; his family moved to Southeast. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Opened in March 2017, the ambitious hotel is part of an urban renewal project aimed at transforming Brunkebergstorg, a once-dreary square in the city center, into a lively gathering point for visitors and locals alike. In Stockholm, a Hotel That’s Solid and Social 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z According to his most strident critics, he bore responsibility for the misguided urban renewal projects — influenced by his ideas — that left massive scars on the postwar American landscape. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Often the loss or degradation was by design — many were systematically destroyed through racially coded policies like “urban renewal.” 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Another Pei landmark, the University Village towers, run by N.Y.U., also resulted from urban renewal, bringing to mind the old question about good architecture and its longstanding relationship with bad history. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z “We have to be smart enough to avoid the pitfalls of urban renewal. How do we regulate that? Look at what’s happened to Shanghai—it’s no longer a Chinese city but a city in China.” A Design Lover's Guide To Cuba 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Belt got the idea for “Glassphemy!” when he participated in a panel about urban renewal in Philadelphia. Eco-Friendly Aggression at David Belt?s Glassphemy! 2010-05-11T22:43:00Z SILO, where "El Henry" runs through June 29, is in fact an outdoor event space in the East Village neighborhood of Makers Quarter, which is in the midst of a creative campaign of urban renewal. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Old jazz haunts just don't mesh with urban renewal. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z Now a symbolic artistic institution of the east is uprooting to the west, with hope that with it will come urban renewal and social rebalancing in this chameleon city. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z He is also doubling down on the work he has been doing for 20 years: helping historically African-American communities rediscover history that’s been erased through abandonment or demolished by urban renewal. Building Public Places for a Covid World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “Atlanta’s urban renewal and expressway construction had, at the very least,” she declares, “built the stage on which the tragedy in Atlanta could unfold.” Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z By the time the main street’s shops and apartments were demolished in the name of “urban renewal” in the 1970s, Ms. Burrows said, “the town’s heyday was at least a decade in the rearview.” Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The specter of a second “urban renewal” was raised again and again. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The Baltimore study also discovered that urban renewal efforts were wiping whole territories of feral dogs off the map. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z The embodiment of the city’s “urban renewal” policies of the ’50s and ’60s was the enormous Pruitt-Igoe housing project, neglected to the point of utter disrepair before it was dynamited into rubble. Rivers Merge in St. Louis. So Do Racism, Violence and Exclusion. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Lincoln Center hired the firm in the late 1950s, when construction began on its huge urban renewal project on the West Side. John W. Mazzola, Former President of Lincoln Center, Dies at 86 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z It was part of a federal urban renewal grant awarded to the city for the southern extension of the Broadway Plaza. Tacoma ‘Sun King’ sculpture comes out of storage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “This is a story of urban renewal,” she said. Corcoran Gallery?s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows 2010-04-14T22:27:00Z The scene began to splinter in the 1960s as the area faced the onslaught of urban renewal, and Ms. Wilson moved a few subway stops north, to a loft on Canal Street. Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z We talk about populations moving because of war and conflict; we talk about gentrification, about urban renewal, all of these have a history. Paintings that Demolish the Myths of What a Home Should Be 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The general arc of the way society works hasn't changed in terms of racism, class bias, oppression, happiness, joy, displacement, urban decay and urban renewal for decades. Lupe Fiasco: 'I'm afraid Chicago is dying' 2012-10-03T19:18:00Z Tempelhofer Park and the Park Am Gleisdreieck represent complementary approaches to urban renewal: the former preserving an abandoned space, the latter dramatically reinventing one. My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It is a Rorschach test, signifying different things — about urban renewal, industry, gentrification, the environment — to different people. The High Line Opens Its Third and Final Phase 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z They’re where foodie culture and a changing American palate have crashed headfirst into urban renewal and the new realities of shopping. Forget food trucks. Now ‘food halls’ are having a moment, and they’re changing the landscape. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Lafayette Park was one of the first urban renewal projects planned in the country. Lafayette Park in Detroit Granted Landmark Status 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z As a chronicler of Pike Place Market history, Paulson notes the unique “bottom-up” energies that made protecting the Market a people’s project connecting historic preservation with urban renewal and its federal funding. The Corner Market Building, then and now 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Among the simplest is just plain listening to the clients, in this case the residents of these informal settlements, and including them as full-fledged partners in the process of design and urban renewal. ArtsBeat Blog: An Exhibit at the United Nations on Design That Improves Slums 2011-10-21T19:17:22Z The projects range from private homes to retail emporiums to transit centers to large-scale urban renewal ventures. A model exhibition by Seattle Architecture Foundation 2011-07-01T23:04:38Z She found that fewer than 5 percent are still in business and 75 percent no longer exist — most victims of so-called urban renewal. Highways Through Hell 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It was hailed by architecture writers and progressive politicians at its opening as a pioneering model for affordable housing and urban renewal. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The construction of most public housing required the resettlement of thousands of households, often those of working class African-Americans, in the destructive process known as urban renewal. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z But the Staten Island Expressway, an urban renewal project sometimes locally referred to as the Mason-Dixon line, cleaved the two ends of the island. Renewal Projects, Down to the Sidewalks, Highlight Social Divides 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Here, as in the making of its signature bourbon and barbecue, urban renewal happens on a small scale and more slowly than some residents would like. A Trot, Not a Gallop, Toward Renewal in Lexington, KY. 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In Greg Pierce’s play about returns and restorations, a woman returns to her hometown with a colorful plan for urban renewal — paint the place red. What’s New in NYC Theater 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Its architecture has been spared the ravages of modernization and urban renewal, but left to the forces of entropy. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Aperture has reissued Danny Lyon’s anguished 1960s pictorial record of the demolition of 19th-century buildings in the Wall Street area in the name of “urban renewal.” Best Art Books of 2020 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z After a decades-long urban renewal project by the federal and local governments, the Fillmore was reshaped - and gradually jazz clubs have started coming back. SFJazz Center opens, bringing swing to West Coast 2013-01-24T12:01:06Z And then there was another conversation about slums and hunger and welfare and urban renewal. Teachers aren’t the problem 2012-09-05T11:45:00Z Amid great clouds of dust, giant bulldozers perpetually gnaw at the ground as the former Yugoslav republic undergoes one of 's biggest urban renewal schemes. Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? 2011-08-14T13:50:56Z But in its glossy new incarnation, the museum is, in some ways, a marker of some of the less appealing aspects of urban renewal. South of Market: How the new SFMOMA reflects the sea change that has engulfed one San Francisco neighborhood 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z That had a positive effect, driving an urban renewal that has become popular with millennial and Gen Z Chioggiotti. ‘Little Venice’ Finally Gets its Moment 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Among fears of the Friends was that the expected millions from federal sources for urban renewal would be used to replace the funky charms of Pike Place Market with modern hotel-motel reminders like City Hall. Seattle City Hall (with protesters), 1972 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Her nemesis was Robert Moses, the city’s powerful master builder and advocate of urban renewal, or wholesale neighbourhood clearance – what author James Baldwin termed “negro removal”. How one woman harnessed people power to ‘save’ old New York 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z In the 10 years since I moved to New York, Detroit has gone through a bankruptcy and is once again undergoing a massive “urban renewal” specifically downtown and midtown areas. “DETROIT”: Cleaning up the mess white people made or adding to it? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that in the 1950s urban renewal forced 4,500 residents to move out of Southwest. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Southwest, the boyhood stomping ground of Marvin Gaye, eventually became a case study of everything urban renewal got wrong about cities and people. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z They assuredly don’t need restrictive zoning laws and xenophobic stabs at urban renewal. Books of The Times: Want a New Life? Wait Here 2011-03-17T14:45:49Z Vanished into an uncertain future: “Sweet Land,” and the spiffy park itself, are symbols of urban renewal and also, inevitably, avatars of gentrification. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The company flirted with Washington Square Park and Columbus Circle, and finally found a new home when city planners decided to raze acres of West Side tenements, plotting urban renewal. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z In a story that is repeating itself in other districts, subsequent city investment in urban renewal perversely led almost immediately to gentrification from around the turn of the century. Is hip Portland over? How the rent crisis is displacing the city's creative soul 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z These complexes constituted an updated version of the traditional Chinese hutong, or enclosed neighborhood, a kind fast vanishing in Beijing under urban renewal. Review: ‘Facing East’ Examines Chinese Influence on African Cities 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z World War II brought African-American workers and more Latinos from the Midwest and the South, many of whom were eventually displaced by the beast of urban renewal projects. A guide to Oakland’s rich history and resilience, from a waterfront saloon to the shores of Lake Merritt 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The performing arts complex, after all, was envisioned as a mid-20th-century urban renewal project. At Lincoln Center, Cultural Institutions Team Up 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Preservation League, urban renewal displaced a total of 23,000 residents and 1,500 businesses. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “It’s affordable and it’s fun. The street stalls are very much part of Hong Kong culture, but they’ve been disappearing as part of the process of redevelopment and urban renewal.” Is Hong Kong really rioting over fishball stands? 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z As in the Bronx in the same decade, “urban renewal” targeted Black and immigrant neighborhoods, boxing them in and ripping them apart. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Were important voices silenced during that period or were most of the papers supporting of the “urban renewal.” In Transit Blog: Ask a Railroad Station Expert 2011-12-28T15:43:27Z Mr. Gaillard rails against the destruction of sites deemed “failed” or “unattractive” — especially controlled demolitions for the purpose of “urban renewal,” an act he deems “state vandalism.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: French Artist Looks for Beauty in Ruins 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z The exhibit focuses on the arts, race, urban renewal and political protests to explore how the District evolved into a vibrant, multicultural hub. National Museum of African Art brings us the sounds of a Nigerian market 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z In their late-20th-century Gotham, the developers always win, papering over the city’s latest scar tissue under the guise of urban renewal. Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “The boarding up of buildings and their eventual clearance raises interesting ecological questions regarding the fate of the dogs that use them …Will urban renewal increase dog mortality?” Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Its purpose is unabashedly promotional: to highlight a city’s cultural achievements, raise its profile and generate tourism and urban renewal. The Europe Issue: A Finnish City Prepares for the Limelight 2010-10-07T15:10:00Z The city is enduring a brutal winter and the ongoing devastation of an urban renewal plan, which is emptying out blocks of old tenements before their demolition. Review | Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland, ‘The Quaker’ is a chilling suspense tale 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z This whole area is the product of a 13-acre urban renewal project, which relied on eminent domain. Times Square, Grand Central and the Laws That Build the City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z In fact, many victims of the wide-scale urban renewal moved here. Lucky 13: The unsung arrondissement you need to visit in Paris 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The standard frame for a story on gentrification pits the upside of “urban renewal” against what’s painted as a necessary byproduct of this renewal, some folks have to move out. Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities 2014-04-08T18:34:00Z At night, Zagete teaches dance; by day, he is one of the instruments of that dream – a member of a task force that breaks up the shantytowns to make way for urban renewal. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z As part of the assignment, they are tackling questions of urban renewal and affordable housing — an issue that is as hot a button in Mexico City as it is in Los Angeles. As Trump aims to build a wall, Los Angeles architecture school SCI-Arc builds bridges to Mexico 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Located in Hough, a residential neighborhood where many displaced African Americans were relocated during 1950s urban renewal projects, the Cleveland museum, in many ways, exemplifies the promise and pain of Black history museums. Black history is vital to understanding racial injustice. But the museums holding that history are under threat. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Most of the developers are New York firms hoping to repeat the success of urban renewal in SoHo, the Meatpacking district and Brooklyn. Art, luxury brands give Miami districts hip makeover 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z She and her husband own a laundry, lose it, buy another and lose that, too, to an urban renewal project. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Art Thief Tjuvholmen, or Thief Island, is the highlight of the city’s continuing urban renewal project to reclaim industrial areas and docklands along the waterfront. 36 Hours in Oslo 2013-06-12T16:47:14Z But there are still some echoes of urban renewal — only this time, rising rents and property values could do the work of displacing people. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And then, as is the history of this country, Liberty City was sabotaged by racist urban renewal policy and official neglect. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Some stretches bear marks of chronic disinvestment, others of creeping gentrification, still others of brutal “urban renewal” clearance. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z A chef, minister and mother of 10 children, Ms. Brown, 59, grew up in Black Bottom, a haven of Black-owned businesses and culture then threatened by urban renewal projects. In Detroit, a Bet That Healthy Restaurants Can Help the City 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The parallels to New York’s adventures in urban renewal are not lost on Thai preservationists. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Seven years ago, Paibang was chosen for an “urban renewal” by city officials, and in 2019 China Evergrande, one of the country’s biggest real estate firms, took control of the project. China Wants to Bulldoze Old Neighborhoods to Revive the Economy 2023-11-17T05:00:00Z All together, about 5,100 homes and businesses were razed to make way for urban renewal projects, said Councilwoman Carroll Fife, who represents the community. A historic Black church's new gospel in Oakland: Fight the high housing costs 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Although residents rebuilt Greenwood — the predominantly African American neighborhood known as Black Wall Street — urban renewal and a highway project pushed Black Tulsans out of the area. Hughes Van Ellis, youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 102 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Gas Works represents a breathtaking example of urban renewal: the decaying industrial hulks at the park’s center once served as a coal and oil gasification plant that helped power Seattle from 1906 to 1956. How Gas Works Park has brought Seattle together over 50 years 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Wyatt, 46, is among a handful of beneficiaries of an unusual experiment in real estate and urban renewal. How to Revive a Dying Main Street? One U.K. Landlord Offered Free Rent. 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “These cities have been profoundly transformed by urban renewal,” Olivier Klein, France’s minister for cities and housing and the former mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, said in an interview. This Paris Suburb Burned Before. Has Anything Changed? 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z France has pledged to invest 12 billion euros in such urban renewal projects between 2014 and 2030 while many priority areas also benefit from other forms of government aid and subsidies. For many, French urban spending can't shake the ghetto feeling 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Conservatives are celebrating the myth that America is "post-racial" and the lie that events like chattel slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, "urban renewal," etc. really have no effect on contemporary society. A Supreme Court mission: Interview with UC Berkeley School of Law professor Khiara M. Bridges 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Investment aimed at urban renewal was ramped up following unrest in 2005 that lasted three weeks. In French banlieues, distrust of police runs deep 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The location would keep the club in Jackson County, though far from the current Kauffman Stadium, and continue a trend of using sports to spearhead urban renewal. Royals owner John Sherman envisions new stadium by 2027 or 2028 season 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z This was the era when America’s cities were suffering from the twin blows of entire neighborhoods wiped out by interstate highways and other freeways, as well as federally funded urban renewal. Pike Place Market continues to thrive despite numerous efforts to tear it down 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Macron said this week that France would push ahead with urban renewal plans and look at ways to get faster results. For many, French urban spending can't shake the ghetto feeling 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In 2021, Kelly Girtz, the mayor of Athens, issued a general “proclamation of apology” for urban renewal projects in the city. A New Front in Reparations: Seeking the Return of Lost Family Land 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Olivier Klein, minister for housing and former mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, told France Inter on Friday that some of the places damaged this week had been built or renovated thanks to the urban renewal policies. In French banlieues, distrust of police runs deep 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z When it opened its doors in 1962, Barrington Plaza was celebrated as the tallest residential complex west of Chicago and the biggest urban renewal project ever insured by the Federal Housing Administration. They face L.A.’s largest eviction in years. But these Westside renters won’t go quietly 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The Pike Plaza Redevelopment Project was part of the city’s first application for urban renewal funds in 1964. Pike Place Market continues to thrive despite numerous efforts to tear it down 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Thomas Kirszbaum, a sociologist at Lille University who specialises in urban policy and integration, acknowledged that urban renewal efforts often lead to local improvements but did little to address a wider sense of discrimination. For many, French urban spending can't shake the ghetto feeling 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z As part of an urban renewal project, the city of Athens and the state Board of Regents displaced the families to make way for three dormitories on campus. A New Front in Reparations: Seeking the Return of Lost Family Land 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z “But we also had our own apartheid that took place in San Francisco through urban renewal.” Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco? 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Adams is also on the board of the Albina Vision Trust, a separate effort to reinvigorate the neighborhood and build wealth for those forced out of the neighborhood in the name of urban renewal. Knight-seeded fund for Black Portland brings hope despite few specifics 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z On the left coast, urban renewal came for the Market, with a plan to demolish it for high-rise apartments, commercial buildings and a hotel. Pike Place Market continues to thrive despite numerous efforts to tear it down 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Instead, government officials argue that successive urban renewal plans have produced educational and other gains which allay a wider sense of social exclusion. For many, French urban spending can't shake the ghetto feeling 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z He hopes the agreement, and the larger efforts to remake the site, can serve as a model for other U.S. cities with the wounds of similar mid-20th century urban renewal projects. Black church, NHL’s Penguins reach historic land-use accord 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z By the mid-1970s, many of her friends were gone as well, pushed out by city officials who seized homes in the name of what they called “urban renewal.” Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco? 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Hulls’ love of historical research inspired her to further examine the effects of urban planning, urban renewal in the 1960s and the interstate system. ‘Nobody Lives Here’ exhibit sheds light on Chinatown International District before Interstate 5 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z No site has been secured, but several of the most promising are in downtown Kansas City, where the Power & Light District along with T-Mobile Center have spearheaded a successful era of urban renewal. Royals’ Sherman optimistic about new ballpark, current team 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The landscape of Southwest was radically transformed once before, in the 1950s, when a thriving neighborhood of rowhouses was leveled in an example of urban renewal now widely seen as disastrous. White people have flocked back to city centers — and transformed them Covering so much new material would not allow enough time for sixth-graders to think deeply about topics such as urban renewal and Vinegar Hill, a majority-Black neighborhood in Charlottesville that was razed in the 1960s. Virginia history standards debate wraps up, with board vote near 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z In Poppleton, one of the affected neighborhoods, residents are currently fighting an ongoing urban renewal project they often compare to the failed expressway. Baltimore to invest in Black communities ravaged by highway 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Described at the time as “urban renewal,” the area ended up being a long interstate exit ramp and vacant land. Longtime soccer hotbed St. Louis finally gets MLS team 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Some cities are currently working to provide reparations to Black residents, acknowledging the harm caused by urban renewal efforts and other discriminatory practices. Black Baltimoreans fight to save homes from redevelopment 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z In preparation for his 1968 presidential bid, Robert Kennedy went all in on what was then called “urban renewal.” Review | An inclusive vision of America, grounded in commitment and hard work 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But even after buying homes and building lives in the Albina neighborhood of Portland, residents were forced to move by so-called urban renewal and highway building. Oregon lawsuit spotlights destruction of Black neighborhoods 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z After leaving Louisiana in the 1950s, her grandparents lived briefly in San Francisco but were displaced by an urban renewal project. California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The mayoral candidates have talked a lot about urban renewal, the rising cost of housing, subsidies for young parents and ways to make the city friendlier for pets. Looking for a boost, Taiwan's oldest political party turns to the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z For almost a half century after that, Washington was focused more on modern infrastructure: roads, highways, urban renewal schemes and a new subway system which began construction in 1969. Perspective | Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial blazed a path in 1982, but no one followed 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z What urban renewal left behind in East Knoxville was a neighborhood that's the poorest in the city — and has the largest share of Black residents. Knoxville’s black community endured deeply rooted racism, and now there is medical debt 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z And for a loosely organized band of urban planners, artists and history lovers, Keelung’s bomb shelters have become a canvas — for creative urban renewal and civil defense. Taiwan’s Bomb Shelters: ‘A Space for Life. And a Space for Death.’ 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Others, including Latino immigrants, faced housing segregation, mass eviction through urban renewal and freeway construction, and many were left relegated to living in crowded slum conditions. To fix overcrowding in L.A., build more housing, mayoral candidates say 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The once-robust African American community had declined after World War II, decimated by redlining and urban renewal. These award winners started nonprofits with purpose — after turning 50 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Civic leaders similarly dubbed other Mexican and nonwhite neighborhoods blighted slums, then cleared those homes for freeway and urban renewal projects. L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Today the Green Medical Arts Building has been replaced by a tangle of freeways that were built after the city's Black business district was bulldozed in a midcentury urban renewal project. Knoxville’s black community endured deeply rooted racism, and now there is medical debt 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Segregated by redlining, railroads and “urban renewal” projects, the city contracted with the police for its primitive ambulance service. Book tells story of Black men who were the first paramedics in U.S. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z But three decades ago, when MetroTech first opened as a billion-dollar gamble in urban renewal, Brooklyn was seen as a backwater to Manhattan. Can $50 Million Make a Dull Brooklyn Office Park Cool? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Salinas Mayor Karilyn Bonilla Colón did not respond to interview requests but has been vocal in the local press about using the federal dollars principally for flood mitigation and urban renewal. Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico as a Category 1 storm. Flooding still wrought havoc. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Then urban renewal plans launched after World War II and the digging of a highway through the area displaced more than 100,000 residents. Detroit wins grant to remove interstate that wrecked a Black community 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Beginning in the late 1950s, the city systematically wiped out The Bottom and surrounding neighborhoods in an urban renewal and highway-building campaign. Knoxville’s black community endured deeply rooted racism, and now there is medical debt 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The Democratic mayor also signed an executive order formally apologizing on behalf of Rhode Island’s capital city for its role in slavery, urban renewal and other racist and discriminatory practices. Rhode Island mayor proposes $10M reparations spending plan 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The new report suggests creating a dedicated fund to support residents impacted by urban renewal policies that displaced and negatively impacted communities of color. Rhode Island reparations report suggests programs, not cash 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Finally, laws were passed to promote urban renewal, American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Residents refer to a litany of abuses perpetrated by the nearly 150-year-old school, including urban renewal efforts in the early 2000s that displaced hundreds of Black families. Johns Hopkins wants to change policing. Many fear it won’t work. 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Moynihan, who had made urban renewal and revival of American downtowns a cause, thought the building — which was languishing, its lower levels filled with lackluster food-court eateries and retail shops — could be a gem. A José Andrés restaurant is coming to the former Trump hotel after all 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Rather, it would be a demonstration project for how, with deeply concentrated resources, the federal government might reverse urban decline and atone for lost Black equity from past urban renewal initiatives. Opinion | Instead of Dollar Homes, a reparation zone in Baltimore 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It also documents the history of urban renewal and highway projects that dismantled once thriving Black neighborhoods like San Francisco’s Fillmore district, effectively destroying generations of wealth accumulation. California calls for ‘comprehensive reparations’ for Black Americans 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z As the Black community grew, redlining, urban renewal and other practices relegated it to the East Side, which became the beating heart of Black life in Buffalo. ‘That’s not the devil. That’s America.’ 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z His view was that the City of Cambridge should create a much bigger urban renewal project that would be almost completely financed by the federal government. The weird true story of how NASA almost ended up with a huge campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z The political concerns of its current students vary widely from mental health to urban renewal and from the national level, such as health policy, to the ultra-local, such as fixing potholes. Local elections 2022: First-time voters in Harlow share their concerns 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z These acts of protest most likely became popular as Americans grappled with the issues of land rights and imperialism during the Vietnam War and an era of urban renewal. San Diego’s Chicano Park Celebrates Its Anniversary 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Black neighborhoods were destroyed by urban renewal and highway projects. What’s in a word? Youngkin takes aim at ‘equity’ 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z For decades, urban renewal in large cities has centered on riverfronts, and smaller towns are now recognizing that creeks can provide the same opportunities. Creeks, Once Overlooked, Are Now Seen as Assets for Urban Renewal 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z A special provision of the urban renewal law allowed for much or all of the city's share to be offset by credits MIT had accumulated. The weird true story of how NASA almost ended up with a huge campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z But despite its immense popularity and often being touted as a success story in urban renewal, the High Line is not a boon to all. Why “greening” cities can make gentrification worse — and often doesn’t help the environment either 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In 1961, Mr. Epstein published Jane Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” which showed that urban renewal projects often uprooted entire neighborhoods, with little concern for the residents. Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z His historic community, which saw the government push out Black families in the 1970s in the name of urban renewal, would have been divided into two council districts in the new plan. Prince George’s judge throws out divisive redistricting map approved by county council 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Among them was dividing Lakeland, a historically Black community that the government pushed Black families out of in the 1970s in the name of urban renewal, into two council districts. Residents sue Prince George’s County over redistricting map approved by council 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Very little other significant new construction happened in Kendall Square throughout the 1970s as the urban renewal plans were being straightened out. The weird true story of how NASA almost ended up with a huge campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z For more than a century, the wharf’s slave history lay hidden under two layers of infrastructure, buried and largely forgotten until it was brought to light once more in 2011 during the urban renewal project. More enslaved Africans came to the Americas through this port than anywhere else. Why have so few heard of it? 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps as many as 1,600 people were displaced to build the park, but the racialized argument that was brought to bear against African Americans stands out as a precursor of 20th-century “urban renewal” campaigns. Opinion | In Search of the Black Utopia 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z A walking path around the field now features photos of Santa Monica’s early Black families and signs describe how the freeway and urban renewal projects destroyed neighborhoods. Santa Monica's message to people evicted long ago for the 10 Freeway: Come home 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Decades ago, deindustrialization, urban renewal, and freeway construction cleared wide swaths of inner cities in places like Kansas City, Syracuse, and Miami — often targeting African American neighborhoods — and made it easy to drive through them. Filth, automobiles, and our misguided obsession with traffic 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z It would take more than a decade after Cambridge Gateway's completion before the first commercial buildings constructed under the urban renewal project finally debuted. The weird true story of how NASA almost ended up with a huge campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Now, the area on the River Mersey is an example of 21st century urban renewal as a leisure and cultural district, complete with a museum dedicated to the city’s most famous sons, The Beatles. UK seeks unity at G7 meeting over Russia’s ‘malign behavior’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Now they are an example of 21st-century urban renewal as a leisure and cultural district, complete with a Beatles museum. G7 foreign ministers meet with Russia, China, Iran on agenda 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z For decades, many buildings around Orange Mound had been torn down for urban renewal programs, said Jimmie Tucker, an architecture professor at the University of Memphis. Revitalizing Black Neighborhoods by Preserving Their History 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Paradise Blue” is set in an era when misguided policies of urban renewal led to the erasure of predominantly Black neighborhoods. Review: Suspenseful noir and Detroit history converge in Dominique Morisseau's 'Paradise Blue' 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z As the urban renewal drama played out, two major advances were steaming forward in science and technology, with MIT playing a big role in both. The weird true story of how NASA almost ended up with a huge campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Claiborne Avenue, once referred to as the “Main Street” of Black New Orleans with more than 100 businesses, wilted under ill-fated urban renewal policies. One Historic Black Neighborhood’s Stake in the Infrastructure Bill 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z There has been momentum in recent years for the Royals to relocate downtown, where Kansas City has been in the midst of a dramatic urban renewal. Chiefs to discuss future of Arrowhead Stadium in coming year 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “Cities like Newark, East Orange, New Haven — they were really ripped apart from interstate highway construction and urban renewal projects,” Ms. Slevin said. What the Infrastructure Bill Means for the New York Region 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Kwok is believed to have good connections in Shenzhen thanks to his involvement in many urban renewal projects that other developers tend to avoid, despite high profit margins. Explainer: China's embattled developer Kaisa Group and the chairman behind it 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z In neighboring College Park, officials are also exploring whether the city should pay reparations to Lakeland, a historically Black community uprooted by urban renewal. Greenbelt residents approve commission to study reparations 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Famously described by author James Baldwin as “Negro removal,” urban renewal programs swept U.S. cities and towns during the 1950s and ’60s. A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “We had big plans to expand. Our numbers were growing … We were just crushed by the pandemic and urban renewal.” This D.C. school was a refuge for troubled teens. Now, after 168 years, it’s closed for good. 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Like everything else downtown, it badly needed repairs and consequently seemed like the perfect place to demolish in the name of modernization and urban renewal. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of saving Pike Place Market 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z But such “urban renewal” plans were the buzzword of that era, with the federal government generously funding projects that replaced rather than repaired blighted areas. How Seattle pulled together 50 years ago to preserve Pike Place Market — and the soul of the city 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z And they were unsatisfied with the effort — and, especially, the consequences — of urban renewal. Walt Disney’s radical vision for a new kind of city 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z But the majority of urban renewal projects occurred in cities of less than 50,000, including College Park, according to the database, and often had devastating consequences. A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Several neighborhoods have fought urban renewal plans, viewing them as a catalysts of displacement in majority-Black areas. Nonprofit group seeks to preserve and grow homeownership in West Baltimore 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In reality, Voronezh is a testament to the Kremlin’s ambitious urban renewal program. As Russians Vote, Resignation, Anger and Fear of a Post-Putin Unknown 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z When Market owners claimed many vendors supported urban renewal, in an angry ad scolding “every hippie, do-gooder and dilettante” seeking a “Market merit badge,” the Friends recruited many more vendors to support their side. How Seattle pulled together 50 years ago to preserve Pike Place Market — and the soul of the city 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z The subjects of gentrification and urban renewal are glimpsed through the fate of a jazz joint in this West Coast premiere. Fall Preview: 11 SoCal theater picks to celebrate our return to the stage 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Several phases of urban renewal had bulldozed 104 of those 150 homes to the ground, leaving only a third of original Lakelanders in the community. A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z For 50 years, the red-brick exterior high-rises of Cabrini-Green, buildings synonymous with the birth of urban renewal and public housing in America, towered over the North Side of Chicago. Tall buildings: Good for the housing crisis, bad for the climate crisis 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z She was raised in Vinegar Hill, a bustling neighborhood of homes and Black-owned businesses that was razed to the ground in the 1960s in the name of “urban renewal.” A Fight Over Zoning Tests Charlottesville’s Progress on Race 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z In the 1950s and ’60s, Seattle and other cities undertook “urban renewal” projects, promising to revitalize neighborhoods but ultimately displacing residents. After decades of gentrification, Central District church calls on Seattle to return land, boost affordable housing 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z In the early 2000s, gentrification crept into the community under the label of “urban renewal,” Sippio said, displacing many of the people she grew up with. In Miami’s gentrifying neighborhoods, Surfside condo collapse deepens fears of displacement 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z That could make College Park one of the first cities in the country to provide reparations specifically to undo the legacy of urban renewal. A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Some 60 years later, urban renewal is recognized as a code word for perpetuating unsustainable development and increases in property values, social exclusion, gentrification and the displacement of marginalized communities. Right past wrongs of racist ‘urban renewal’ and pay reparations to Seattle’s Black community 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The postcard city’s bid for the Olympics drew inspiration from Barcelona’s urban renewal with the 1992 games. Five years on, Rio de Janeiro chases elusive Olympics legacy 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Near the church, an urban renewal project in the Yesler-Atlantic neighborhood displaced more than 400 families, the vast majority of them people of color, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Richmond. After decades of gentrification, Central District church calls on Seattle to return land, boost affordable housing 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “This investment demonstrates our belief in the tremendous growth opportunity in urban renewal and redevelopment,” Qiqi Zhang, managing director of Warburg Pincus, said at a ceremony in Shanghai. Warburg Pincus steps up investment in China's urban renewal projects 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z A few other cities, including Asheville, N.C., and Athens, Ga., are also contemplating reparations to address urban renewal. A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, the famed African-American writer, dubbed “urban renewal” takings “Negro removal,” because of this tendency. Government’s power to seize private property must be reined in 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Liberal welfare and urban renewal policies shattered the Black family, ushered in social chaos of all kinds and continue to inflict misery. The left’s chutzpah knows no bounds 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z “People called it urban renewal. We called it Black removal,” longtime community activist Eddie Rye Jr. said at the church Wednesday. After decades of gentrification, Central District church calls on Seattle to return land, boost affordable housing 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “What is the biggest challenge in holding urban renewal projects? You need long-term, and cheap money,” she said at the ceremony. Warburg Pincus steps up investment in China's urban renewal projects 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z It is now filled with suburban style homes with lawns, a fabled tale of urban renewal. Shaun Donovan Has the Résumé and the Money. He Just Needs the Votes. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Then, desegregation and urban renewal further upended the post-massacre Black business community that was rebuilt. At century mark, Tulsa Race Massacre’s wounds still unhealed 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The federal government also used “urban renewal” or “slum clearance” redevelopment programs that often led to the clearing of the way for giant infrastructure projects like highways. Biden Seeks to Use Infrastructure Plan to Address Racial Inequities 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The Washington Channel is the site of one of the city’s major urban renewal efforts, with new restaurants, luxury housing and concert venues. AP sources: Iran threatens US Army base and top general 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z The massive Donnelly Hotel and other storefronts on the east side of Second Street fell victim to urban renewal in the 1970s and ’80s. This tricky ‘exaggeration postcard’ shows Mount Rainier from Yakima 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Interstate highways, federal subsidies for suburbia and “urban renewal” savaged the cores of American cities for decades — some ruined for good. Downtowns will be back, but Seattle has choices to make 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z But the family stayed in Tulsa, enduring some of the same post-massacre hardships that generations of Black Tulsans endured: urban renewal, inequality on the north side and police brutality. At century mark, Tulsa Race Massacre’s wounds still unhealed 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Today, it's the scene of a major urban renewal effort that's prompted no small controversy. Over-The-Rhine: Is this a model for urban renewal or a warning sign? 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Focus early on equitable outcomes for high-minded urban renewal projects. Op-Ed: How to make sure the L.A. River Master Plan fulfills its promise to the Gateway Cities 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z The City Council used the guise of urban renewal in the 1960s and ’70s to destroy Brooklyn, once Charlotte’s largest Black neighborhood. Rapid development risks erasing Black homeownership legacy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Information taken from a 1974 database show’s Burlington was one of several towns across the country that received urban renewal funding. How city planning broke up a Black business district 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z At the same time, the rough but cheap single-room occupancy hotels were disappearing in downtown Seattle, brought down by tightening fire codes and steamrolled by urban renewal. Well-known Seattle homeless shelter, closed by the pandemic, might never reopen. Here’s what will replace it. 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z But developing open countryside, rather than air rights, would pay for the urban renewal. A Low-Income Quarter Needs to Grow. A Prized Forest Could Pay the Price. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z More than 1,700 municipalities across the nation received urban renewal funding. Spartanburg apologizes to Black residents for past injustice 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Some Howie Acres residents see present-day gentrification as an extension of urban renewal and other government-sanctioned strategies to harm Black neighborhoods. Rapid development risks erasing Black homeownership legacy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., journalist/activist Sam Smith and NBC4 reporter Derrick Ward will discuss the history of urban renewal in the District and how federal experiments have reshaped the city. Perspective | A lifetime studying the Black experience — and collecting art related to it 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z That, in turn, could threaten municipal bond payments and even the urban renewal plans that rely on minor-league baseball in some places. Businesses Thought They Were Covered for the Pandemic. Insurers Say No. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z There is another option, some critics say, which would be for the government subsidize Kiryat Menachem’s urban renewal directly instead of ceding green space to developers. A Low-Income Quarter Needs to Grow. A Prized Forest Could Pay the Price. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z In 2015, the city unveiled a memorial in its downtown area that remembers its Black Business district the way it was before its demolition in the 1970s due to urban renewal. Spartanburg apologizes to Black residents for past injustice 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z As with the post-war “white flight” to the suburbs, the city centres will be abandoned by those with money, leaving them to crumble and reversing several decades of urban renewal. Dystopia or utopia? The future of cities could go either way | Chris Michael 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Black prosperity slowly returned, peaking in the 1940s, but was hobbled by insurance redlining, discrimination, and the challenges that accompanied integration and “urban renewal”. In 1921, a white mob burned 'Black Wall Street' down. We still feel that legacy today | Hannibal B Johnson 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Though the pastors are making a new push for city investments in the Central District, the harms they want to redress are longstanding, they said, referring to waves of gentrification abetted by urban renewal initiatives. Seattle should fund more housing in Central District for people pushed out, pastors and Sawant say 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Black residents attempted to rebuild in the decades that followed, only to see their work erased during urban renewal of the 1960s. Trump picks Tulsa for return of signature campaign rallies 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The apology calls attention to the 1960s and 1970s when the city received more federal money for “urban renewal” than anywhere else in the state. Spartanburg apologizes to Black residents for past injustice 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z The West End is mostly black and mostly poor, home to neighborhoods stunted by urban renewal and a dearth of social services. In Louisville, the virus showed a racial divide. Two police shootings revealed its depth. 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z That trend redeemed many center cities after decades of subsidized civic vandalism from freeways, suburbanization and misguided “urban renewal.” Downtown Seattle is wounded, but not down for long 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Cities then were undergoing a wave of transformation, too, with urban renewal projects tearing through poor neighborhoods. Beverly Hills, Buckhead, SoHo: The New Sites of Urban Unrest 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Black residents attempted to rebuild in the decades that followed, only to see their work erased during urban renewal of the 1960’s. Black businesses hit hard by COVID-19 fight to stay afloat 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Black residents attempted to rebuild in the decades that followed, only to see their work erased during urban renewal of the 1960’s. Black businesses hit hard by COVID-19 fight to stay afloat 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Later, many black residents and businesses were displaced in the name of urban renewal. Ahead of president’s visit, Michigan town battles racial disparities in coronavirus deaths 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z He was among the first reporters to chip away at the formidable edifice of power surrounding Robert Moses, New York’s unelected and unchallenged master of parks, highways, urban renewal and major building projects. William F. Haddad, journalist, political operative and businessman, dies at 91 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z It was to be the centerpiece of an urban renewal project spearheaded by Iraq’s Communications Ministry. The unfinished Baghdad Tower is a metaphor for a broken country 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Fast-rising incomes are one indicator of urban renewal and gentrification in a neighborhood, but there are others. What are the region’s most changed neighborhoods? We crunched the data on population, income, jobs 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z In 1967, the museum hired street photographers to capture the city’s ongoing urban renewal, a mass exodus from downtown to the suburbs and a time of social change. Exhibit to highlight Albuquerque street photo project 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z They obscure the ugly reality lurking under the surface of “urban renewal” schemes that really function as slum clearance and gentrification campaigns. How business elites sold the "urban renewal" lie to the Rust Belt 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Indoor urban farming is frequently touted as a mechanism for urban renewal and job creation in low-income neighborhoods. Indoor farming looks like it could be the answer to feeding a hot and hungry planet. It’s not that easy. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Post-Civil War seizures of black-owned land to create parks and roads, restrictive covenants, mortgage redlining and urban renewal displaced African American communities and maintained racial segregation. Opinion | Gentrification in D.C. was not fated. Policy made it happen. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z They demanded independence for Puerto Rico and an end to the Vietnam War, and fought for equity in resource allocation, demonstrating at urban renewal meetings. Garbage Fires for Freedom: When Puerto Rican Activists Took Over New York’s Streets 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The exhibit is broken up into three stories, including the Roosevelt Park Riot, urban renewal and the history of the Albuquerque Museum itself. Exhibit to highlight Albuquerque street photo project 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z It is within this context of constant-to-growing poverty that promises of urban renewal and shared prosperity via downtown redevelopment ring hollow for the city’s poor. How business elites sold the "urban renewal" lie to the Rust Belt 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead, critics have labelled it a “tax scam,” “the latest example of urban renewal” and “a bonanza for the rich.” Seattle’s first Opportunity Zone development breaks ground in Pioneer Square 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Metrorail is the common thread of the Washington area’s most dramatic pockets of recent economic success — downtown Bethesda; the District’s 14th Street corridor; the Rosslyn-Clarendon-Ballston daisy chain of urban renewal in Arlington. Opinion | Is Metro finally turning a corner? 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Midcentury urban renewal programs used eminent domain to clear slums and improve downtown areas. Opinion | Clarence Thomas Is Not a ‘Sellout’ 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z From 1962 to 1965, Rev. Moore was a Methodist missionary in Congo, then helped lead an urban renewal project in Washington’s Shaw neighborhood. Douglas Moore, provocative presence in civil rights and D.C. politics, dies at 91 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The Pennsylvania state initiative is different from previous approaches to urban renewal. How business elites sold the "urban renewal" lie to the Rust Belt 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The lawsuit says those communities are primarily occupied by African Americans, because of polices of urban renewal that demolished many historic black neighborhoods. Attorneys seek dismissal of Annapolis public housing suit 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The wave of urban renewal that swept the world in the 20th century gave us inner-city highways, modernist downtown malls and high-rise housing projects. Vanished neighbourhoods: the areas lost to urban renewal 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z In a 1963 interview, the writer James Baldwin declared that urban renewal “means Negro removal.” Opinion | Clarence Thomas Is Not a ‘Sellout’ 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The construction of Interstate 95 and other urban renewal programs in the late ’50s led to displaced black families moving east and settling in a nearby housing project known as the Bucket. What a lifeguarding job on the black side of Wilmington taught Joe Biden about race 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Queer people have helped revitalize cities nationwide, but urban renewal has losers, too. Opinion | How we talk about gentrification can unite or provoke us 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The city has undergone urban renewal in commercial and residential developments - but arguably by measured degrees. Lessons linger from Harrisburg’s 1969 racial turmoil 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z By the 1940s, urban renewal made the community a target for redevelopment. Vanished neighbourhoods: the areas lost to urban renewal 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z At the behest of Napoleon III, Georges-Eugène Haussmann was responsible for Paris’s urban renewal in the 19th century, designing the famous grand boulevards the world knows today. How Paris's biggest migrant shelter and other spots in France are dealing with extreme heat 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Venn was founded in 2016 as an urban renewal experiment in a run-down neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Israeli urban tech startup Venn raises $40 million 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Dr. Kelling continued to advocate the “broken windows” theory for years, and it was adapted from policing to business as a way to foster urban renewal. George L. Kelling, who helped devise ‘broken windows’ theory of crime prevention, dies at 83 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In this position, Mr. Pei gained the practical experience of working with large-scale urban renewal and low-income housing projects all over the country. I.M. Pei, preeminent architect of civic centers and cultural institutions, dies at 102 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The de facto capital of Canada’s eastern provinces, Halifax is proof that urban renewal often exacted as great a toll on small cities as on large ones. Vanished neighbourhoods: the areas lost to urban renewal 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Stein argues that property investments shadowed two federal programs: redlining and urban renewal. What does ‘an anti-capitalist’ city look like? In ‘Capital City,’ an urban planner investigates 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Its buildings were swept away with urban renewal. Weeksville, a Haven for Free African-Americans Before the Civil War, Is Fighting for Survival 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z A year later, he made another groundbreaking decision, finding that Hamtramck, Mich., illegally destroyed black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal with the federal government's help. Damon J. Keith, civil rights jurist who ruled against both Nixon and Bush, dies at 96 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The trail’s first marker memorializes Sharp End, the historic black business district that was demolished in the 1960s during the city’s urban renewal process. Columbia approves route for trail honoring black history 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The scandalous ruins surrounding Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh means Charm City is in the throes of urban renewal — not gentrification, though. Baltimore mayor vs. Catherine Pugh 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z In a 1997 interview with The New York Times, he cited his successes in obtaining federal and state funds for needs like urban renewal and hiring police officers and sanitation workers for his revenue-starved city. Kenneth Gibson, 86, Dies; Newark Mayor Broke Race Barrier in Northeast 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z A big selling point for the project, he said, was that it would serve predominantly black Durham neighborhoods that were badly hobbled in decades past by urban renewal projects and highway construction. Durham Dreamed of a Transit Line. Duke University All but Killed It. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z They gave money, lent their names and appeared at affairs to promote education, urban renewal and other causes. Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, Civic Leader in New York City, Dies at 100 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Worcester is in the midst of an urban renewal, with work on a new baseball stadium downtown and a stream of professionals from the Boston area arriving in search of cheaper housing. US communities reach out to homeless as liver disease surges 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Regarding polishing up the city, suffice it to say, blocks and blocks vacant buildings in Baltimore have been leveled, giving urban renewal a spanking new meaning. Baltimore mayor vs. Catherine Pugh 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He laments how postindustrial urban decay took hold of Beacon in the 1960s, rendering central Main Street derelict, and urban renewal cleared the way for stout, one-story constructions in the ’70s. New York City Transplants and a River Town’s Natives Fight for Its Soul 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “We got an old-timer named Joe Jackson who grew up around here, before urban renewal,” Hamilton says. Where can you hear some of D.C.’s best jazz musicians for five bucks on a Friday night? At this church. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In the U.S. it is often bookended at one side by the rise of seemingly progressive agendas leading to urban renewal and on the other end, an economic reality: quality concrete construction became too expensive. Brutal is beautiful when it comes to architecture's ugly duckling 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The City of SeaTac is repeating the misdeeds of 1950s urban renewal, or “black removal.” Save a cultural hub in SeaTac 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z We hear about it all the time: more buildings, bigger buildings, taller buildings and urban renewal. Opinion | I lived abroad for 18 years. I hardly recognize the Northern Virginia I knew. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Despite significant progress in urban renewal, the city has a long way to go in rehabbing such dwellings. Tennessee editorial roundup 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The urban renewal that began under Mr. Bredesen turned into a boom after the Great Recession, which, thanks to Nashville’s diverse mix of industries, was comparatively mild here. Nashville’s Star Rises as Midsize Cities Break Into Winners and Losers 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It closed in 1971 due to school desegregation and urban renewal, and was torn down. East Waco Library features historic black high school, grads 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The Telegraph Herald’s front-page news feature on Thursday, marking a half-century since the start of Dubuque’s urban renewal project, sparked memories of a civic nature. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z When Florida’s book came out, city leaders throughout the United States quickly seized on his ideas to promote their own urban renewal projects. Amazon’s move will gentrify neighborhoods — at what social cost? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z But this symbol of urban decay was, improbably, reborn as a symbol of urban renewal. When the L Train Shuts Down, Will the Williamsburg Bridge Come to the Rescue? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z In Lou Ye's The Shadow Play, a local government official in charge of approving "urban renewal" projects and an ambitious land developer collude to make their fortunes. Golden Horse Awards: The Oscars of Asia 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z But critics counter that other French cities spend more and fare better, while Marseille prioritises urban renewal aimed at attracting tourists and business. The day France's second city ripped apart 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Some point to the subsequent loss of retail businesses downtown as “proof” that urban renewal “failed.” Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The policy is intended to provide housing for people with historical ties to the predominantly black neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal in the beginning in the 1960s. Affordable housing development for displaced residents opens 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z He made a name for himself with urban renewal projects in the borough. New York Bishop Is Accused of Sexual Abuse 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The park runs several blocks long and has been there for many decades, a product of early urban renewal and slum clearance. How a Garden for the Poor Became a Playground for the Rich 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Throughout the country, cities were bulldozing blighted neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal. David Wolkowsky, developer who transformed sleepy Key West into a tourist haven, dies at 99 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The novelist Jodi Picoult wasn’t writing about Dubuque and urban renewal, but this line of hers seems appropriate: “When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.” Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, a reference to “gentrification” is replaced with “urban renewal.” National park officials were told climate change was “sensitive.” So they removed it from the... 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “A lot of architecture got destroyed by urban renewal, which is a shame,” said Frank Goderre, the city’s historian. Peekskill’s Newest Revolution 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Last February, Tamari Bar settled into the corner of Summit Avenue and East Pine once occupied by World of Beers, continuing an urban renewal of sorts. Capitol Hill izakaya Tamari Bar is effervescent fun 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The debate over incentives is not exclusive to Kansas City as new luxury apartment developments are driving urban renewal in other mid-tier markets around the nation. Tax Breaks for Luxury Towers Spur Redevelopment, and Backlash 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z For most of the time since the last mound of rubble was hauled away, the mention of Dubuque’s urban renewal project triggers in many people head-shaking and tongue-clucking. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Seismic risks in an earthquake zone amplified the need for urban renewal. Dreams Turn Sour as Turkey’s Building Boom Sags 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Bill for returning veterans and by funding from the so-called urban renewal policies that formed the backbone of President Truman’s domestic program. How Michigan Became the Epicenter of the Modernist Experiment 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Using archival materials, new interviews and commentary Wolf creates an engaging tale of urban renewal. Review: ‘Restoring Tomorrow’ engagingly chronicles Wilshire Boulevard Temple's revival 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z But Burnside became a success story of urban renewal that was eventually backed by the city and local businesses, and it influenced an entire generation of DIY skatepark builders. Seattle skatepark visionary is mourned, but his company rolls on 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The same might be said regarding Dubuque and urban renewal. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z In “Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay,” the historian Alison Isenberg points to a shift around this time in the way San Francisco practiced its urban renewal. Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The project is proposed to be funded with donations, debt and urban renewal revenue, in addition to city funding. Boise approves draft budget with $69M in library funding 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Monroe’s mother owned a Sharp End restaurant, Aunt Vi’s, but it was lost to urban renewal. Columbia officials look to address remaining racial divides 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In addition to the Voting Rights Act, other Great Society legislation established Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, urban renewal programs and national endowments for the arts and humanities. Richard N. Goodwin, ‘supreme generalist’ who was top aide to JFK and LBJ, dies at 86 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z On the drawing board is an ambitious urban renewal initiative that would redo the area and meld it into the popular H Street corridor of shops and eateries. This 7-Eleven has been robbed six times in four months. But residents see hope in neighborhood revitalization efforts. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The rise of housing projects, and later urban renewal, eventually led to a decrease in the black population, he said. Starbucks Arrests, Outrageous to Some, Are Everyday Life for Others 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z As a planner and former urban renewal director, I’ve been involved in economic development for anticipated tax revenue and job opportunity. Opinion | A big incentive package doesn’t seem like the right move in this instance 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Whether it’s the “chicken coop” black business owners were herded into during urban renewal, the Sharp End itself or today’s aftermath of largely segregated neighborhoods, “Everything was designed to oppress the black man,” Monroe said. Columbia officials look to address remaining racial divides 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Resident displacement, brought on by urban renewal projects — once denounced as “Negro removal” — in the 1950s and ’60s, now takes place under the rubric of gentrification. Review | When D.C. burned in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Universities and the city government, he wrote, merely draped their racism in terms of “urban renewal,” the razing of “blighted” buildings that primarily housed African Americans. Arnold Hirsch, influential historian of urban segregation, dies at 69 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, thousands of buildings were razed in Southwest for urban renewal with the promise that displaced residents would be rehoused in the same area. Opinion | Don’t let development push out low-income residents 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Bing shared that single-mindedness with New York City building czar Robert Moses, who had a passion for demolishing what he considered to be slums in the name of progress and urban renewal. The origin story of a New York landmark is well told in 'The Opera House' 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Following on the heels of other urban renewal efforts across the country, Phoenix officials are helping to transform the zone, south of downtown, into an innovation, technology and creativity hub. A Renewal for Phoenix’s Warehouse District: Polished but Gritty 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The Bayfront Connector was, in essence, an old-fashioned traffic engineer’s vision of urban renewal, with all the predictable results. In Erie, One City Block Is a Trek of Disrespect 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z As he put it, “The legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles waged on Chicago’s South Side. The nation now lives with that legacy.” Arnold Hirsch, influential historian of urban segregation, dies at 69 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Although she was aiming at the “planner elite,” so-called urban renewal and New York’s powerful Robert Moses, who wanted to ram an expressway through lower Manhattan, the book offers timeless lessons. Forget HQ2 — Big Tech wants to build cities from scratch 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Mellon helped spearhead the urban renewal that displaced so many African Americans beginning in the 1950s. Review | Pitchers, playwrights, journalism and jazz in black Pittsburgh 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The greater the urban renewal activity in your area, the higher the points. Un-gentrifying Portland: scheme helps displaced residents come home 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Questions about where to spend the city’s limited resources touch on familiar themes about the failures of urban renewal and today’s widening income gap. In Erie, One City Block Is a Trek of Disrespect 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Up in Sacramento: State lawmakers want to restore an urban renewal and affordable housing program. Essential California: A much-needed storm, but it's likely too little too late 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The 1.65-million-square-foot urban renewal project on the Lower East Side — a space that sat fallow for over 40 years — has hit several milestones since we reported on it last June. Ready to Roll? A Works in Progress Report 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Sixty years of liberal Democratic rule; high levels of per-pupil public school spending; large public and private “investments” in economic development and urban renewal over many decades. Opinion | Maryland’s hospitals must do better 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Yet the years to follow would herald a storm of urban renewal projects, including a new highway and a hospital expansion, which razed the homes of nearly 200 families, predominantly black. Un-gentrifying Portland: scheme helps displaced residents come home 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z There are fewer motels along Nevada and Colorado avenues - eliminating longstanding havens for people experiencing homelessness as the areas gentrify and redevelop through urban renewal tax incentives. Colorado Springs’ burgeoning homeless population persists 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z The “urban renewal” plan, which leveled 18 city blocks on the Upper West Side, also included educational, commercial and residential facilities. How Lincoln Center Was Built (It Wasn’t Pretty) 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “The question of what cities are for and who they’re for was really born through the urban renewal projects,” Cebul says. Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Sharpe noted the Medford City Council is looking at investing $22 million in urban renewal dollars in the Liberty Park neighborhood just north of downtown. Medford-area renters struggle with steep rent hikes 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Inspired by Jane Jacobs’s 1961 book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” he led a successful fight to preserve New Haven’s old neighborhoods from “urban renewal.” Vincent Scully, Yale scholar who explored architecture’s humanizing force, dies at 97 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In the late 1950s, Atlanta embarked on its first attempt at “urban renewal”, which for many people at the time translated to “negro removal”. 'We have to give a damn': in Atlanta, super-gentrification rears its head Atlanta's super-gentrification. Your city could be next 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Instead, his history lesson was the prologue to explaining — and selling — an ambitious urban renewal strategy that he claims “hasn’t been tried before in the country.” Detroit’s mayor seeks to continue urban renewal, relying on unique strategy 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Nelson hopes to continue to expand the maps to include more urban renewal projects with help from the public. Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Poma says she hopes the permanent memorial will initiate urban renewal in the area. Improvements set for memorial at nightclub where 49 died 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z That’s partly because of the site’s proximity to the impoverished, run-down Southwest neighborhood slated for urban renewal. Does Washington rank as a great waterfront city? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Some things to know about one of the nation’s earliest showcases of urban renewal: Philadelphia fetes Benjamin Franklin Parkway as it turns 100 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z As urban renewal pushes low-income people to the suburbs, suburban blight is on the rise, bringing shuttered shopping malls, opiate addiction, and strained social service networks to these areas. The miserable reason behind millennials' slow march to the suburbs | Jamie Peck 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Anyone with maps or local knowledge of urban renewal projects in their hometown is encouraged to get in touch through the website. Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z As it continued to push urban renewal projects, the board was being attacked as wrecking the character of neighborhoods. Milton Mollen, 97, Dies; Investigated Police Corruption in New York 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z But the disorder has also been called a rebellion, underscoring longstanding economic and racial frustrations among the city's large black community amid a period of urban renewal. Detroit recalls five days of violent unrest a half century later - BBC News 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The doctrine of urban renewal, fuelled by federal dollars, had planted a forest of projects – Scudder Homes, Stella Wright Homes, Columbus Homes – so dense that it earned Newark a nickname: Brick City. The Newark race riots 50 years on: is the city in danger of repeating the past? 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Garcia, with the museum, said the fountain later became unsightly and apparently was capped and buried around the time of federal urban renewal in the mid-1960s. Crews unearth fountain from long-gone Waco neighborhood 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Nelson also hopes the project will prompt people to confront the lasting impacts of urban renewal in their communities. Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Tobey later joined another fight in the 1960s to save the Market from being mostly demolished in the name of “urban renewal.” Check out the Pike Place Market’s $74M addition: See 360-degree views of the new MarketFront 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z The development dates to 1955, when the site was designated for urban renewal. Essex Crossing, a Renewal Project 60 Years in the Making 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Such shortcomings never discouraged supporters from touting a program that’s been around since 1974, with the admirable goal of uplifting the poor and boosting urban renewal. Block Grant cuts wanted by Trump face bipartisan opposition 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The company is proposing to build the complex where homes and businesses were located before they were razed for urban renewal decades ago. NYC developer eyes Hudson River waterfront project upstate 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Nelson and colleagues combed through more than a decade’s worth of federal documents describing thousands of urban renewal projects. Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z This was called urban renewal, and its many errors are now widely recognized. ‘Citizen Jane: Battle for the City’ review: Documenting the clash over urban renewal 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Two decades after Jimmy Carter’s visit, President Bill Clinton stopped by Charlotte Street to praise the area as a model of urban renewal. New York Today: Past Presidential Visits 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The Death and Life of Great American Cities was a rallying cry against the destruction the broad brush of postwar urban renewal was wreaking on the fine grain of the city. Street fighter: how Jane Jacobs saved New York from Bulldozer Bob 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z In 1958, when Moses decided to earmark the entire West Village for urban renewal, Jacobs outmaneuvered him to stop that from happening. It's bulldozers vs. neighborhoods in 'Citizen Jane's' clash of the urban renewal titans 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Redlining created the crisis that urban renewal was created to solve,” says Brent Cebul, an urban historian at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a co-author of Renewing Inequality. Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z She looked around her at urban renewal, and at housing projects in particular, and saw only disastrous outcomes for the poor and enrichment for the developer class. Learning From Jane Jacobs, Who Saw Today’s City Yesterday 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Finally, in 1998, the city sold it back to the family after the urban renewal plans were abandoned. Paul Novograd, Who Owned Manhattan’s Last Public Livery, Dies at 73 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z To spur development, city officials sold off land and more than 110,000 government-owned apartments to foreign investors, while also funding urban renewal campaigns. In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as Rents Soar 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z For Jacobs, urban renewal was 'not the building of cities but the sacking of cities.' It's bulldozers vs. neighborhoods in 'Citizen Jane's' clash of the urban renewal titans 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Portland Development Commission, a public agency, wants private partners to commit to incorporating manufacturing spaces and affordable housing in their urban renewal projects. In red-hot Portland, soaring housing costs and widening income gap echo Seattle’s growing pains 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “I think it was a good symbolic gesture, but we need something of substance,” civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said of Trump’s museum visit, naming issues such as voting rights, unemployment and urban renewal. After delay and amid pressure, Trump denounces racism and anti-Semitism 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The commission first conducted hearings in Flint 50 years ago to investigate problems associated with urban renewal, particularly access to decent housing. Commission: 'Systemic racism' at root of Flint water crisis 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Federal urban renewal policies tried to turn downtown into a pedestrian mall of sorts. Downtown Laurel in bloom, thanks to young entrepreneurs 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z For Jacobs, however, urban renewal was "not the building of cities but the sacking of cities." It's bulldozers vs. neighborhoods in 'Citizen Jane's' clash of the urban renewal titans 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z In the African-American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal. Theaster Gates: 'I want to believe that there is power in my poverty' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z That’s when Related was selected by city and county officials to transform land left mostly vacant since the former residential neighborhood was razed about 50 years ago in an urban renewal program. Frank Gehry's $1-billion downtown project could finally be a go after a Chinese builder's $290-million investment 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z That sentiment took on an anti-government flavour following the failure of misguided urban renewal policies, and then a racist tinge once many white Americans fled to the suburbs. Trump's divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for America's future 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Spurred by federal urban renewal plans, Laurel and many cities across the country implemented plans designed to appeal to the indoor mall craze. Downtown Laurel in bloom, thanks to young entrepreneurs 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z For many scholars and activists, the term “urban renewal” is a worrying one, carrying historically proven racial connotations. 'Here until they take me out': DC tenants use the law to fight gentrification 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z A falsely named “urban renewal” project bulldozed entire blocks, then left the lots vacant. Behind Brooklyn Neighborhood’s Rebirth, a Woman Who Joined in a Dream 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “A lot of the emphasis in urban renewal was on the ‘new’ part of renewal — that this was a way of moving forward,” said Lawrence Vale, a professor of urban design and planning at M.I.T. Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s living proof that urban renewal is not only viable, but one of the best uses of taxpayer moneys. TRAVEL: Oklahoma City offers restaurants, cowboy history, craft beer and bombing memorial 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Given a choice, the city and some of its urban renewal partners would rather help those home buyers who are putting their family inside a house. Residents of tax-sale houses go through difficult journey 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In an accompanying statement, Trump referred to his own “urban renewal agenda” and his “message of economic revival, very much including our inner cities”. 'Here until they take me out': DC tenants use the law to fight gentrification 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z And there is a plan for urban renewal, centered on an oyster-shaped visitors’ center and local art exhibits on the coastal barrier, including a large dragon — the symbol of Wales. For a Welsh City, the Tides Offer Renewal 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Jane Jacobs’s 1961 classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” decried both the social networks destroyed by urban renewal and the anonymous megaprojects built in their place. Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Cleveland showed the world what urban renewal can look like during the Republican convention. My journeys in Trumpland 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z There are signs of the hipsterfication often taken as a harbinger of urban renewal. Youngstown, Ohio: why voters are supporting Trump in a bellwether city 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Back in the late 1950s, she too, was displaced by urban renewal efforts. Spy agency to come to once-vibrant St. Louis neighborhood 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In the late 50's they answered with massive urban renewal programs and a variety of subsidized housing plans for the middle class under the Mitchell/Lamma legislation. Steven Banks Was Hired to Stem New York’s Homelessness Crisis. It Didn’t Happen. 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z And more than two-thirds of the displaced were black or Hispanic, a pattern that was clear by 1963 when the author James Baldwin observed that urban renewal “means Negro removal.” Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z She argued that the best way to prevent destructive, top-down urban renewal, as practiced by Robert Moses and Le Corbusier, was through grass-roots planning, neighborhood by neighborhood. Top-Down-Bottom-up Urban Design 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z One of our best-read articles today takes on a task faced by many American cities: healing the scars of the urban renewal era. Roy Moore, U.S. Presidential Race, ‘Deepwater Horizon’: Your Friday Evening Briefing 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The Interstate Highway System was connecting population centers, and urban renewal programs were being implemented to fight blight. From Whimsical to Indispensable, Some of Our Favorite Historic Buildings 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Harris, the quarterback, is from one of the southern neighborhoods where many black residents have been pushed out as urban renewal has taken hold. San Francisco High School Athletes Are Taking a Knee 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z This era of federal urban renewal ran through the early 1970s, after which a series of other redevelopment ideas followed: Community Development Block Grants, “enterprise zones,” “promise neighborhoods.” Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Japanese government experts are helping Myanmar’s ministries draw up plans for urban renewal and transportation routes. China Helps Aung San Suu Kyi With Peace Talks in Myanmar 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z It was her more abstract experience of large-scale urban renewal elsewhere, particularly in Philadelphia, under the then much praised Edmund Bacon, that really kindled her growing indignation about what was happening to cities. Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z For the gentrifiers and those in neighbourhoods being gentrified, there are contradictory emotions caused by the interplay of race, class and ambition in the winner-takes-all pursuit of constant growth that we have termed urban renewal. The gentrification of Washington DC: how my city changed its colours 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z “As a witness to the aftermath of the urban renewal movement in New York, I was determined to find a different way.” An Architect Who Built His Career on Resuscitating New York Landmarks 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Among scholars and many city dwellers, urban renewal is remembered for its vast destruction of minority communities, when entire urban neighborhoods were razed for housing, highways and civic projects. Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Grain elevators are a stubborn target for urban renewal, because it’s so difficult to use them for anything but cleaning and storing grain. The Trouble with Owning a Grain Elevator 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Recording the images can be daunting work, especially as the urban renewal of recent years has put some in jeopardy. D.C.’s walls tell stories 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z And it is sinking $450 million into urban renewal of poor sections of Colon on the north side of the canal. An expanded Panama Canal opens for giant ships 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The downtown area is a paragon for urban renewal, the locals are proud and hospitable, and, most importantly, the city boasts a kick-ass beer scene. Facing my fears and taking on Pittsburgh's famous Primanti Bros. sandwiches - Golf Digest 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The federal government faces distrust even without leading with the phrase “urban renewal.” Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Civil rights leaders, superstar athletes, and celebrities sit alongside everyday people celebrating birthdays, mourning losses, and protesting discrimination amid the tumult of urban renewal. Preserving the Black Experience Through Performance 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Nickel had made a name for himself in Chicago by leading public fights to preserve architectural gems in the face of postwar urban renewal projects. Story of cities #45: the death of Richard Nickel, guardian of Chicago's heritage 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Announced in 1967, the freeway was part of a larger urban renewal scheme to modernise Vancouver’s road network and revitalise its then-struggling inner city. Story of cities #38: Vancouver dumps its freeway plan for a more beautiful future 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Jacobs argued that urban renewal—tearing down old neighborhoods to build housing developments in their place—was not the answer to the problem of urban slums. Defending Vibrant City Life: Jane Jacobs at 100 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z “When I talk to people about contemporary redevelopment of public housing in certain cities, the words they use are, ‘We don’t want another round of urban renewal in our neighborhoods,’ ” Mr. Vale said. Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, the government — led by city planners and Congress — decided to launch an urban renewal program in the area. Developers and home buyers are flocking to Southwest Washington 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Progressives battled plans to crisscross the city with freeways and opposed urban renewal programs that destroyed black neighborhoods. In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Thinkers such as Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, with his emphasis on master planning, and American town planner Robert Moses, with his tear-it-down-and-build-it-up approach to urban renewal, were influential with city governments across the continent. Story of cities #38: Vancouver dumps its freeway plan for a more beautiful future 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Some of the sites already have markers, including one dedicated to the black Columbia business district that was razed in the 1960s during the city’s first phase of urban renewal. Plaque to mark site of Columbia’s last public lynching 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Following the end of the Second World War, the Truman administration expanded the 1937 Housing Act to include more money for “slum clearance” and urban renewal, but almost no money was allocated for reservation housing. Tribes struggle with decades of housing neglect 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Between highway construction and urban renewal, “roughly two-thirds of the families displaced were poor and mostly African American,” Foxx said. A crusade to defeat the legacy of highways rammed through poor neighborhoods 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z A site just south of the Brooklyn Bridge was declared a landmark and designated for urban renewal and historic preservation after Mr. Stanford and his wife founded Friends of South Street in 1966. Peter Stanford, Steward of New York’s Maritime History, Dies at 89 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z That same day, Hellyer announced a nationwide freeze on federal funding for urban renewal. Story of cities #38: Vancouver dumps its freeway plan for a more beautiful future 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z But in the 1950s, the area was marked for urban renewal and razed, decimating the community. ‘Old but not cold’: Four very long-time friends anticipate turning 100 this year 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The frequency of super costly “natural” disasters on the coast will only increase if we continue to cram buildings up against the beach and treat storms as urban renewal projects. Developers don't get it: climate change means we need to retreat from the coast 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z If urban renewal were a sport, that would win a gold medal. An Olympic oasis 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Entire blocks of African American-owned homes were razed for so-called urban renewal, displacing thousands of black families and the businesses and cultural institutions they had founded. St John Coltrane Church faces eviction, a sign of San Francisco's lost jazz history 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Harrison lived in Pittsburgh for a time, and saw some of the gentrification and urban renewal happening there, just as it does in Wilson’s play. For black actors, August Wilson play a positive step on race 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The urban renewal agency handed the completed mall to the city in 1971. Development plan for downtown Eugene hits snag with deed 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Four legislative interim committees are expected to meet at least once more before submitting recommendations on public defense reform, school broadband, state contracts and urban renewal. Idaho’s interim committees still working on suggestions 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z When the city tore down the block of black businesses as part of its “urban renewal” effort, George Thompson bought the building on Wilson Street a block away. Rock Hill’s oldest black-owned restaurant is closing 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z But it has also returned to its civic roots: staging patriotic events, campaigning against corruption, participating in urban renewal, delivering humanitarian aid – much to the adulation of the local population. Putin’s Angels: the bikers battling for Russia in Ukraine 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The city spent urban renewal money on highways and tourist attractions that transferred wealth to the rich, demolishing African-American neighborhoods in the process. Cleaning up the streets that bear the name of his hero – Martin Luther King 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The city’s urban renewal agency bought the building in 1970 to create a pedestrian mall and demolished the building. Development plan for downtown Eugene hits snag with deed 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Seeking to remake São Paulo into a modern city, elite reformers and boosters of the 1940s and 50s embarked on ambitious urban renewal projects. Pixação: the story behind São Paulo's 'angry' alternative to graffiti 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The area’s post-war decline, precipitated by urban renewal and changing tastes, changed Coney Island’s reputation from glittering spectacle to a kind of glorious seediness, captured by photographers such as Bruce Davidson. New York's faded playground: can Coney Island recapture lost glories? 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The urban renewal area spanned several city blocks, from North Capitol Street west to 15th Street and M Street north to Florida Avenue. Development Redefines Character of Washington’s Shaw Area 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z They are removing a lot of homes and doing urban renewal in preparation for the Summer Olympics.” On a Wall in the West Bronx, a Gentrification Battle Rages 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Became governor in 1998, after campaigning on issues normally regarded as Democratic Party territory: public school education, urban renewal, and Medicaid funding. Why is it all going wrong for Jeb Bush? - BBC News 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Lawmakers agreed that urban renewal districts should remain flexible in how they select members, but a handful voiced concerns over allowing municipalities to hold elections to fill the positions. Idaho lawmakers consider changes to urban renewal laws 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z “In the central parts of London, housing is extremely expensive and segregation is already high,” says Maarten van Ham, professor of urban renewal at Delft University of Technology and the University of St Andrews. Which is the world's most segregated city? 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Under the 1969 urban renewal plan the District of Columbia acquired thousands of vacant rowhouses, but there was little demand for them. Development Redefines Character of Washington’s Shaw Area 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s a blueprint for urban renewal that has worked in Berlin’s Mitte, New York’s Lower East Side and London’s Shoreditch – so why not South Park too? 10 things South Park has taught us about gentrification 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Construction workers and chic Europeans gather in the mellow pub, a sign of the urban renewal underway. After Heist, Fisher Landau Museum Emerged in Long Island City 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Sen. Mary Souza, a Republican from Coeur d’Alene, urged creating measures to prevent urban renewal districts from bypassing a public vote to build public projects. Idaho lawmakers consider changes to urban renewal laws 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In other words, the “slum-dwellers” who urban renewal was supposed to be all about, would get nothing and lose everything. The real-life 'negro removals' behind HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Or when entire residential neighborhoods built in the 19th century, such as Southwest Washington, were being razed in the name of urban renewal, then the politically correct term for slum clearance. Historic preservation doesn’t have a long history in U.S. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Mass clearances of slums under his “urban renewal programme” left thousands of low-income citizens without homes, while the city’s business and political elite benefitted from redevelopment contracts. Nigeria's posterboy for anti-corruption facing allegations of corruption 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z All told, the new projects are adding 240 apartments and more than 300 hotel rooms to downtown streets, many of which still bear the scars of urban renewal. Ithaca Plaza Reawakens, Drawing More Development 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Leicester, like many mid-sized British cities, lost much of its medieval past to urban renewal, but visitors still get a flavor of what it looked like in Richard's time. Shakespeare's 'toad' Richard is Leicester's star draw 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Moses, an inveterate racist, saw a double opportunity in urban renewal. The real-life 'negro removals' behind HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has created the post of minister for urban renewal and is promising to extend services to informal settlements. Do-it-yourself 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z No cry rallies like the cry against urban renewal. For Billy Joel, it's 'Say Goodbye to Nassau' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z His organization is dedicated to building a stronger Baltimore by mobilizing a new generation of leaders focused on urban renewal. Home Is Where The Solutions Are - How Local Leaders Can Drive Change 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In the peak years of urban renewal programs during the 1950s and 60s, New Haven led the entire nation in per capita urban renewal spending. Ten Years After 'Kelo,' Eminent Domain Blunders Continue 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In practice, under the supervision of overwhelmingly white and often racist local officials, “urban renewal,” as novelist James Baldwin would famously put it, “means Negro removal.” The real-life 'negro removals' behind HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In a 1999 article in The International Journal of Mental Health, she showed federal urban renewal policies to be a fundamental cause of disease. The Town Shrink 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Sure, other stadiums have served as the impetus for urban renewal. Sports architects Spear, Santee shape ballpark experience 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z You have to provide for resource conservation, small business, medical research, urban renewal and science. Robert Kennedy Speaks His Mind in 1963 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Both are already the focus of urban renewal efforts. Mobile city council to seek historic designation for 2 areas 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Tearing down the gas house district was hailed as a triumph of urban renewal. Growing Up in the Gas House District 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z They later relocated to an area now occupied by the Waco Convention Center, selling cars there until 1969, when the federal urban renewal program bought the site. Family-run used car business in Waco closing after 105 years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But urban renewal also had a private component, demolishing neighborhoods for glassy new malls, offices, and entertainment districts that were considered essential for middle-class retention. Tax Increment Financing Is The New Urban Renewal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Oh, and House Republicans recently proposed cutting urban renewal programs that benefit places like, well, Baltimore. Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan Give the War on Poverty a Bum Rap 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Sandtown was once an experiment for urban renewal; state and federal grant money poured in to overhaul housing. ‘Freddie was our family’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The mall is part of the city’s urban renewal development area. Greeley Mall is trying to make a comeback 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Projects of urban renewal, meant to revive the neighborhood, sputtered and faltered. Through Decades of Unrest in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a Family Stays Put 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z And urban renewal imposed an unwanted aesthetic, replacing human-scale neighborhoods with outsized structures. Tax Increment Financing Is The New Urban Renewal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z And they acknowledge the ill feelings that linger over the university's push for urban renewal in Woodlawn in the 1960s. Obama library plan is a reminder of bad blood between community, U. of C. 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Far from being considered "off limits" to authorities, they've been designated as priority areas for urban renewal and other forms of state aid. Debunking the Myth of Muslim-Only Zones in Major European Cities 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In 1971, Seattle voters approved a renovation to preserve Pike Place Market after a 1960s wave of urban renewal threatened to replace the 1907 market with skyscrapers. Editorial: Historic structures need more than nostalgia to stick around 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Hartford bears the scars, and reaps the benefits, of the urban renewal and social upheaval of mid-20th century America. Visual Beauty and History in Hartford 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z A 1966 study found that urban renewal projects averaged over a decade to complete, and many businesses that finally emerged failed to reverse decline, or defaulted. Tax Increment Financing Is The New Urban Renewal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He’s also the founder, financier, and impresario of the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, an ambitious social experiment in urban renewal. Tony Hsieh Is Building a Startup Paradise in Vegas 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Throughout the old city, historic buildings are being restored, the urban renewal accompanied by deeper social and political changes. Atoning for a Genocide | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z It was the 12th time in 18 months that arsonists damaged or destroyed art installations in unoccupied houses at the Heidelberg Project, a two-square-block urban renewal and public art space that began in the 1980s. Detroit public art project seeks arsonist who torched installation 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It was the early ’70s, and Mr. Brown’s prophetic vision of urban renewal was decades on, the nostalgic history of an optimistic urban America decades in the past. Good Pictures, Bad Timing 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Walk today through the parts of my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, that underwent “urban renewal,” and you start to grasp the policy’s failures nationwide. Tax Increment Financing Is The New Urban Renewal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The list includes government authorities that were created to oversee urban renewal projects or industrial development. New York abolishes 36 inactive government agencies 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Take, for instance, the latter-day “urban renewal” now envisioned to clear Detroit of its population and reseed it with people from the suburbs as, say, the Babylonians did with Jerusalem. How to Save Detroit's Blighted and Foreclosed Neighborhoods 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Hundreds of buildings were leveled in the 1960s and 1970s, but promised urban renewal projects failed to materialize. In Pursuit of Casinos, It’s Worst Foot Forward 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z The whites who back her "urban renewal" plan have been morally compromised by her operatives and/or stand to gain from the project. Grasping Ferguson Through Franzen: St. Louis and Its ‘Tragic Glory’ The desire for urban renewal in U.S. cities actually predated federal intervention, having become local policy in the 1930s. Tax Increment Financing Is The New Urban Renewal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The former authorities included a community development agency in Southampton, an urban renewal agency in Tarrytown and an industrial development agency in Rotterdam. New York abolishes 36 inactive government agencies 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Developers who are working to revive the city’s downtown and repair the mistakes of past urban renewal campaigns are often exasperated by Mr. Greenberg, but they do not dismiss him. Saving Scraps From the Past Amid New Haven’s Revitalization 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Many of the neighbors protested the urban renewal project that leveled the community, even as some moved into new homes built next to the school. Neighbors concerned about adding lights at T.C. Williams High School’s stadium She was born and raised in Southern California, but her family moved to the Detroit area after the race riots of the 1960s, where her father, a town planner, worked on urban renewal. Where the Harlem Renaissance blossomed in Virginia, with poet Anne Spencer The concept of urban renewal plays a big part in making the Nature Exploration Classroom a “green” effort, Middle Way House volunteer and education coordinator Lauren Robe said. Group looks to use nature to help violence victims 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Baade said he visited Barcelona recently - seen as the most successful Olympics in generating urban renewal - and went to the part of the city where the Olympic stadium is located. Brazil’s new stadiums seek post-World Cup events 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Many cities have tried to generate urban renewal around a big project like a new stadium with mixed success over the years. In Minneapolis, a Blueprint for a Bustling Downtown 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z By 1957, New York had spent twice as much public money on urban renewal as the rest of U.S. cities combined. Why Paul Ryan’s newfound “compassion” is terrible for American cities 2014-05-04T10:58:00Z On the Downtown Project, his $350 million urban renewal project in Las Vegas: Zappos Founder Tony Hsieh On Google, Snapchat, Burning Man And More 2014-04-16T16:40:00Z With the urban renewal of the 1990s, the spirit of Melbourne's lanes revived. Selling the lanes that make Melbourne cool 2014-02-22T01:38:02Z Palmer Square has long been a symbol of the potential — and the problems — of urban renewal. Homes a Short Walk From Princeton Prove a Tough Sell 2014-01-21T22:29:21Z Qubein’s plan for the university is as much about urban renewal as about academics. Bubble U.: High Point University 2012-04-19T23:20:31Z Hsieh wants Vegas to be a model for urban renewal projects worldwide. Why Zappos CEO Hsieh Wants To Enable More Collisions In Vegas 2013-11-15T20:23:00Z They were a landmark of urban renewal, dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1935, and home to Diana Ross and the Supremes. Fixing Detroit's Building Blight 2013-09-30T11:05:24Z The mayor was once seen as the brains behind Bo's grandiose economic plans for foggy Chongqing, which included an ambitious urban renewal scheme and an egalitarian narrowing of the stark rural-urban income gap. The art of survival in China: how some of Bo's cronies cling on 2013-08-21T04:16:46Z Next Wednesday, the city of Denver plans to announce the “Welton Challenge,” in which three property owners along Welton Street in the urban renewal area will be chosen in a competition over their development plans. Ready to Pick Up the Beat on Welton Street 2013-08-20T22:30:59Z State governments - all of them - are doing this in the name of urban renewal. Letter from Africa: Playing the ethnic card 2013-08-20T12:10:45Z He said the arts world became distracted by a focus on urban renewal, corporate sponsorship and social inclusion, rather than reflecting the real world. Cuts 'could be good for the arts' 2013-08-03T02:17:03Z He would end the Treasury's crazy fiscal bias against urban renewal which does real damage to British cities. At last, George Osborne has got in touch with his inner Keynes 2013-07-26T05:01:00Z The World Trade Centre was an urban renewal project owned by the Port Authority of New York. Greenpeace's Shard stunt was bold, but will it help its cause? 2013-07-13T20:30:00Z Jesuits built the property, in part, for families displaced by the urban renewal plans of the 1960s. In District, affordable-housing plan hasn’t delivered 2013-07-07T23:33:40Z There’s been a lot of concern with these urban renewal projects. Turkey’s Twitter “curse” 2013-06-03T21:50:00Z Over the past decade and half, Chicago razed all 82 of its troubled housing project high-rises, the biggest civic redesign since urban renewal placed the massive tower-and-garden developments there in the first place. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z Medellín, Colombia is also a case study in urban renewal. Mexico Goes After the Narcos - Before They Join the Gangs 2013-02-25T17:35:28Z Moving to Birmingham University in 1976, Rick maintained his interests in housing and urban renewal through research and teaching. Richard Groves obituary 2013-02-19T11:00:27Z The urban renewal program of slum clearance, a federal program begun in 1949 and locally controlled by Robert Moses, used eminent domain to acquire and destroy thousands of the remaining bungalows. F.Y.I.: Why So Many Nursing Homes in the Rockaways? 2012-11-17T07:36:46Z I think if the government says, we’re going to back down, we’re going to stop this urban renewal business, stop legislating lifestyle issues, stop overreach and the intimidation of journalists, things will calm down. Turkey’s Twitter “curse” 2013-06-03T21:50:00Z Chicago no longer has the money for big urban renewal projects. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z "We gladly took the opportunity to show our appreciation to the Mexican people by participating in this ambitious urban renewal project," he said. Azeri leader statue row in Mexico 2012-10-03T03:47:42Z Developers want hypermarkets and eco-cities in the countryside, not healthier high streets and urban renewal. Yeo's runway taunt is big-willy politics, and that is the most dangerous politics of all 2012-08-28T19:30:01Z The urban renewal programs of the 1950s and 1960s are a big part of the story. F.Y.I.: Why So Many Nursing Homes in the Rockaways? 2012-11-17T07:36:46Z The city of Stoke-on-Trent aims to sell off run-down row houses for 1 pound each as part of an urban renewal scheme. European castles for sale 2012-08-21T14:55:00Z But the neighborhood has been physically transformed by a generation of planners promoting concepts like "international transport hub" and "urban renewal." IHT Rendezvous: The Olympian Stakes for East London 2012-07-07T14:19:51Z In an effort at urban renewal, the city recently added a park across the street where people gather. Funerals Remain a Segregated Business in the South 2012-06-23T22:55:49Z So was urban renewal, with the push to redevelop hardscrabble East London. Special Report: Global Business of Sports: Big Sporting Events Find New Frontiers 2012-04-24T16:37:22Z As with much of urban renewal, it seemed like a good idea at the time. F.Y.I.: Why So Many Nursing Homes in the Rockaways? 2012-11-17T07:36:46Z California’s community redevelopment agencies were created in the 1940s to encourage urban renewal. Square Feet : An Uncertain Fate for Urban Projects in California 2012-04-10T23:08:04Z For two of the blocks, now known in part as Ruppert Towers, the city approved an urban renewal project with apartments for mixed-income households. | Upper East Side: Upper East Side/Streetscapes - Empires of Rival Brewers 2012-03-24T09:00:07Z Within two years, the area began to change as other businesses took advantage of urban renewal loans. Luck and Loyalty Keep Bringing Bobby Valentine Back 2012-02-17T19:24:05Z In 1966 he helped create the Model Cities program, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s effort to direct federal urban renewal money to specific neighborhoods in cities willing to abide by numerous regulatory criteria. Charles M. Haar, 91, Dies; Used Courts to Clean Boston Harbor 2012-01-18T04:23:24Z Jackson, Miss., Redevelopment Authority, $90 million of urban renewal revenue bonds. Treasury Auctions Set for This Week 2011-12-19T03:29:48Z Failed attempts at urban renewal are everywhere, often to darkly comic effect. Now That the Factories Are Closed, It?s Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich. 2011-12-15T17:00:08Z He went to architectural school and was involved in urban renewal. New at the top: Brian Argrett?s interest in community development started early 2011-11-06T22:00:45Z So, like Charlotte Street in New York City's South Bronx in the 1970s, Michigan Central Station remains a convenient backdrop for people drawing attention to urban distress, not urban renewal. In Detroit, dreams of civic renewal collide with hard realities 2011-11-02T20:49:19Z |
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