Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warner also charged Cambridge officials with "indecision" on the whole urban renewal question. "City leaders really don't know if they want urban renewal at all," he declared, and "then they can't decide if it should be in the form of rehabilitation or reconstruction."
In more recent years that flame has affected a peculiar new incandescence which shall soon warm and perhaps light a larger part of the deeper South; that South with its de facto capital in Atlanta is now undergoing a New Reconstruction. It is beginning a time of development which, in...
Whether or not that somehow farfetched ideal is ever achieved matters little to the region now. This New Reconstruction, unlike the older one, is itself a source of considerable self-satisfaction. Waged by the moderate business communities of the greater urban centers it offers a means to progress which the...
Already, moderatism and the economic interests have done a sizeable amount. The changing economy of the region has brought, along with rising productivity, increased per capita income, great increases in urban population, appreciable improvements in public education, and higher standards of health and welfare. They have, in fact, given to...
Probably the strongest single force in the Formosan economy is the U.S.-Chinese Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, which has worked on some 3,000 economic projects and carried out a much-needed distribution of farm land that has benefited half a million Formosan fami lies. The commission created a...