Download or read book Saving America s Cities written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

Download or read book Renewing the City written by Robert D. Lupton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.

Download or read book The City Creative written by Michael H. Carriere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : a brief history of the recent past -- The (near) death and life of postwar American cities : the roots of contemporary placemaking -- The roaring '90s -- Into the twenty-first century -- Growing place : toward a counterhistory of contemporary placemaking -- Producing place -- Creating place -- Conclusion : Placemaking is for people.

Download or read book Apostles of Change written by Felipe Hinojosa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel church communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Download or read book Streets of Glory written by Omar M. McRoberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered the lifeblood of black urban neighborhoods, churches are thought to be dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. But Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, a tough Boston neighborhood containing twenty-nine congregations, reveals a very different picture.

Download or read book Urban Renewal in Selected Cities Hearings Before a Subcommittee of 85 1 November 4 5 Chicago Ill December 30 and 31 1957 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Renewal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Renewal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Renewal in Selected Cities written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4 and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Housing and Urban Development Legislation 1969 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ashburton Avenue Master Plan and Urban Renewal Plan Mulford Gardens HOPE VI Revitalization Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Demonstration Cities Housing and Urban Development and Urban Mass Transit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Church and Urban Renewal written by George D. Younger and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study which grew out of the 1963-64 investigation made in seven cities by a team from the United Presbyterian Church.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Historic Buildings in Urban Regeneration written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report examines the contribution of historic buildings to urban regeneration; the role and effectiveness of public agencies responsible for the built environment; the impact of the planning system and listing of historic buildings on urban regeneration; the role played by government departments to promote the historic environment; and fiscal and legislative reform options. The Committee concludes that regenerating historic buildings can reinforce a sense of local community and act as a catalyst for urban regeneration. However, historic buildings cannot be retained as relics of a bygone age, but new uses and sensitive adaptations allowed where the original use is no longer viable. The report highlights the shortage of conservation officers and the skills deficit in knowledge of regeneration and funding issues. It also call on the DCMS and the ODPM to working more closely together on their cross-cutting responsibilities, in order to boost the potential contributions made by historic buildings to the local economy. The current planning system is also criticised for causing delays and uncertainty, with developers being subject to as many as nine different regimes, including planning controls, listed building consent and conservation area controls.