urban renewal
description: program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay
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A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
influential among a younger generation of interwar architects. It extended far beyond the design of individual buildings to a call for a crusade of comprehensive urban renewal, one that found fertile soil in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. This ideological modernism – as distinct from the modernist style – captured
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activity of conserved Smithfield to its west and Hoxton to its north. It is a textbook case of modern architecture’s inability to bring to urban renewal the vitality that comes with old buildings. 19. The Dawn of Hesitation (1965–1973) I will not forget the day in 1968 when we heard
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public housing. In his analysis of this period, the urban historian Otto Saumarez Smith wrote that the ‘presumption that cities would be totally transformed through urban renewal and radical architectural forms was increasingly untenable’. Both the architects and the politicians on whom they relied were caught in what amounted to a political
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style of the 1960s and 70s it might be that of ‘streetlessness’. The balance of power in urban architecture was now shifting. The agency of urban renewal was no longer an all-powerful planning committee and its officers, restrained by little more than their available resources. Listed-building control – saviour of Covent
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in cities such as Birmingham and Glasgow no longer had carte blanche. Planning became a matter of compromise. What this meant in practice was that urban renewal would increasingly mean architectural renewal. Councils that had for twenty-five years regarded their principal role to be builders of public housing saw that role
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buying and improving Victorian streets. I lived next to one myself, and watched it mature into a model of stable, communally integrated housing, what balanced urban renewal should be. More generally, social housing meant direct aid for renting privately owned properties or those owned by housing charities. During the 1980s, council-house
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to an extreme. Reyner Banham, Paul Barker, Peter Hall and Cedric Price founded the ‘non-plan’ movement, rejecting outright not just the modernists’ style of urban renewal but the very idea of planning itself. They argued for ‘the removal of regulations in favour of the spontaneous urban development that would follow’. They
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the medical, legal or engineering professions are found to be responsible there are demands for accountability. Yet the misjudgements of the three decades of postwar urban renewal were never investigated. Billions of pounds were wasted, notably in demolishing recently constructed buildings. The misery caused almost exclusively to poor communities was beyond calculation
Globalists
by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
city hall alongside theaters and the university.14 The developments echoed those under way in Paris under the direction of Baron George-Eugène Haussmann. Both urban renewal projects created arteries of commerce and transportation in medieval cities, building wide streets that could serve simultaneously as sites of cultural enrichment in their opera
Europe by Eurail 2023
by Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski and C. Darren Price · 8 Jan 2023 · 570pp · 186,017 words
modern town of Argos was built up over ancient ruins from previous centuries of conflict. The last ethnic group to participate in that form of urban renewal was the Turks, who ravaged the town in 1397. As a result, Argos has scant visible remains of its ancient origins except the theater and
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
they incentivize sprawl and lock future generations into the same exhausting drive-till-you-qualify nightmare that nobody wants to live. The toxic legacy of “urban renewal” road projects, Kimble’s book shows us, has so damaged community trust in the whole concept of urban planning that local residents are sometimes very
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still in recovery from car-centric planning decisions that obliterated many historic buildings to create auto infrastructure in the 1950s and ’60s. Those twentieth-century urban-renewal schemes echoed similar initiatives across North America and Europe, building highways like the Périphérique ring road that encircles central Paris. That road itself became a
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
housing stock for decades after they were built, and these declines were in addition to those resulting from neighborhood poverty, racial segregation, white flight, or urban renewal policies,” the researchers concluded. According to Eric Avila, an urban planning professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1956 and 1966 highway construction
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Damage Be Repaired?,” Akron Beacon Journal, Feb. 3, 2022, www.beaconjournal.com/in-depth/news/2022/02/03/akron-innerbelt-history-racial-inequity-black-history-urban-renewal-ohio/9033520002. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT a $17.7 million grant: “Project Profile: Rochester Inner Loop East, New York, a Freeway to Boulevard
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
by Ray C. Anderson · 28 Mar 2011 · 412pp · 113,782 words
enough? My right brain seemed inadequate for the challenge. Fortunately, our guest speaker that night, Majora Carter, a visionary voice in city planning who views urban renewal through an environmental lens, had a lot to say to us about some of these things. Carter was awarded a 2005 MacArthur “genius” grant after
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2016: For Preparing Your 2015 Tax Return
by J. K. Lasser Institute · 19 Oct 2015
loan under the Disaster Relief Act is treated as a partial reimbursement of the loss and reduces the amount of the loss. Payments from an urban renewal agency to acquire your damaged property under the Federal Relocation Act of 1970 are considered reimbursements reducing the loss. Insurance payments for the cost of
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014
by J. K. Lasser · 5 Oct 2013 · 1,845pp · 567,850 words
loan under the Disaster Relief Act is treated as a partial reimbursement of the loss and reduces the amount of the loss. Payments from an urban renewal agency to acquire your damaged property under the Federal Relocation Act of 1970 are considered reimbursements reducing the loss. Insurance payments for the cost of
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax
by J K Lasser Institute · 30 Oct 2012 · 2,045pp · 566,714 words
loan under the Disaster Relief Act is treated as a partial reimbursement of the loss and reduces the amount of the loss. Payments from an urban renewal agency to acquire your damaged property under the Federal Relocation Act of 1970 are considered reimbursements reducing the loss. Insurance payments for the cost of
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody · 7 May 2018
grants for first- time home buyers, mortgage- interest deduction, and tax breaks 178 e u r o t r a g e d y on urban-renewal schemes and capital gains.93 In 1996, the IMF had noted the disturbingly rapid increase in property prices and had warned against policy measures to
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