Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build more institutional "projects," isolated from the rest of the community, no matter how hard that is to do under restrictive Federal cost and design regulations. We must stop talking about the need for more housing for low-income families, but objecting when a site in our own neighborhood is proposed. The Council and the Authority must respond promptly and positively to proposals put before them. We have not yet been able to meet the housing must go beyond that difficult task to the even more challenging problem of housing for low-income large families. Failure to do that...
...city and many others. But that need not be the case. Urban renewal provides a critical element in the process of providing more reasonably priced housing--it reduces the cost of assembling and preparing property for redevelopment or rehabilitation. There are new, more flexible renewal procedures such as Neighborhood Development Program and the advance availability of rehabilitation funds for future renewal or code enforcement areas...
...bank). Still, mysteriously and unfairly, his normal existence seems filled with threats. Waiters "take advantage of people every chance they get." Negroes unreasonably wish to be regarded as fellow human beings. Jews violate standards of business practice and profit anyway; they also try to move into one's neighborhood...
...dullness" on the already tormented city dweller. In her ten years as an editor of Architectural Forum, she had seen plenty of such projects. The zesty future, she argued, could be found instead by returning to the diversity of the past, by restoring a facsimile of such seemingly decrepit neighborhoods as New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. Mix rich and poor residents, she cried, old and new buildings, add a few cultural facilities for ferment, and cherish the small shops that provide neighborhood intimacy...
...preposterous. By itself, planned diversity could hardly create a new way of life for urban slum dwellers. Given the economic pressures working upon them, and the present tastes of middle-class and lower-class city dwellers alike. U.S. city planners are no more likely to re-create old neighborhood living successfully than William Morris would have been in rejuvenating Victorian England by establishing a Utopian handicraft community on the banks of the river Wandie. No matter. Despite her mistakes, Jane Jacobs, operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, had taken grandiose assumptions of city planning and stood them on their ears with...