Word: redevelopments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This neighborhood on North Harvard Street has a history of very militant opposition to the BRA's plans to redevelop the site. In 1964, when the BRA tried to evict 85 low income families to build a high-rise luxury apartment tower, the residents fought back so bitterly that the plans for the project were scrapped...
Japan has long-range plans to redevelop most of the islands to their prewar farming and fishing levels. Iwo Jima, for one, will take a lot of patient cultivation. After 23 years, it still remains a desolate battlefield, where hulks of landing craft and shell casings jut from the black volcanic sand. Farther inland, in tunnels and caves, lie the bones of thousands of Japanese soldiers, which the Japanese hope to send home. And hidden like deadly thorns among the island's thick green vines, an arsenal of mines and shells still awaits the invader's incautious footsteps...
...Vincent Kelly, pastor of Mission Hill Church, outlined the "latest encroachments by the Harvard group on our neighborhood." He was referring to a proposal to build a blood research center which would be part of a new medical complex to be built on the land the Boston Redevelopment Authority proposes to redevelop...
Fifty residents, spurred by formal notification on November 25 of the BRA's plans to redevelop the land, met last Monday to spell out a definite resistance crusade. They decided to hang, from every balcony and window, posters proclaiming that they shall not be moved. "We're going to stay here till Hell freezes over," Goldin exclaimed...
...boom, Milan has swelled in population by 24% in ten years. It boasts 37% of all Italian businesses, pays 24% of the nation's taxes, accounts for one-fifth of all its wages and salaries. To relieve its inevitable growing pains, Milan hopes to annex 94 surrounding communities, redevelop its crowded city center, build a complex of subways and expressways and expand housing, health services, schools and sanitation facilities. Once Milan decided on this ambitious course, the problem was where to borrow the money-and how to convince the rest of the world that Milan was all its citizens...