Download or read book Urban Renewal for Charlotte written by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inter-Governmental Task Force. Urban Renewal Committee and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Renewal in Charlotte written by Charlotte Redevelopment Commission and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charlottte First Ward Urban Renewal written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charlotte s Inner City Urban Renewal Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Urban Renewal on African Americans in Charlotte North Carolina the Case of the Brooklyn Neighborhood written by Khalid Hijazi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal urban renewal program, which was created as part of the Housing Act of 1949, was designed to provide cities with money to rehabilitate their infrastructure by replacing old decaying buildings and blighted inner city areas. Almost in every city urban renewal took effect, African Americans were the ones whose homes and places of business were deemed blighted, and as a result, were removed to make room for new governmental and private business structures. The city of Charlotte chose to participate in urban renewal in 1960. The Brooklyn neighborhood, which was located in Charlotte's Second Ward, was the first black community chosen to be developed. In a period of 14 years, more than 900 families were removed from their homes in Brooklyn as the entire neighborhood was demolished. This paper will first, establish the historical background of how African Americans were treated in terms of housing policies in Charlotte during the twentieth century. Second, it will construct the story of urban renewal in Charlotte by exploring the role of the media and local leaders in the decision making. Third, this paper will evaluate the aftermath of urban renewal upon the former residents of Brooklyn.
Download or read book First Ward Urban Renewal Area N C R 79 Charlotte North Carolina written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Region IV. and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sorting Out the New South City written by Thomas W. Hanchett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a "salt-and-pepper" pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid- twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.
Download or read book Sorting Out the New South City Second Edition written by Thomas W. Hanchett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas W. Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, lived in intermingled neighborhoods. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting-out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. A new preface by the author confronts the contemporary implications of Charlotte's resegregation and prospects for its reversal.
Download or read book Urban Renewal written by National Housing Center (U.S.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban transportation in the Charlotte North Carolina urban region written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceptions of the City written by Lindsay Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960's and 70's Charlotte, NC was statistically ranked higher than Detroit in per capita murders. The downtown area was not a place one ventured out alone at night and the activity occurring there was less than honorable. At this time though, there were big changes occurring nationally, particularly with the Nixon Administration and policies passed in 1973 that jump started Urban Renewal, with grants and financial aid given to cities deemed in need of assistance to rejuvenate and grow. These funds reached Charlotte at a time when the banking industry, also benefiting from new national legislature, was beginning to look towards growth and acquisition on a national scale. These banks began to invest interest in the look and use of Charlotte as they began to understand the importance of civic pride and location on their business. The combination of these two factors, the financial backing and the renewed civic enthusiasm, built the basis of the Charlotte we have today, a city internationally known, selected to host the Democratic National Convention in 2012. This paper will investigate the agents who orchestrated those changes, with a particular emphasis on banking, especially the role of Bank of America. Charlotte Observer newspaper articles, guidebook and map publications, and interviews with key individuals who are knowledgeable about Charlotte's history serve as the basis for the research data. The paper will discuss key thematic areas of Bank of America's impact on Charlotte's image. These themes include buildings that altered the skyline, attraction and construction of arts and culture venues, neighborhood revitalization in the downtown area, and sports franchises and facilities. This paper will argue that Bank of America was involved with nearly every aspect of the change of Charlotte's image towards the lively city it is today, known at national and global scales.
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 Yesterday Today Tomorrow written by Charlotte Redevelopment Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Center City Charlotte Urban Design Plan written by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan also contains information on: "Uptown Charlotte"; plazas; central business district revitalization.
Download or read book Charlotte NC written by William Graves and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Once derided for its sleepy, nine-to-five “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, not yet global. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and local experts to examine Charlotte from multiple angles. Their topics include the banking industry, gentrification, boosterism, architecture, city planning, transit, public schools, NASCAR, and the African American and Latino communities. United in the conviction that the experience of this Sunbelt city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's most pressing urban and suburban issues, the contributors to Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City ask what happens when the external forces of globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.
Download or read book Urban Renewal Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 290 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 1965 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
