Word: riverton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, a number of the new towns were built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Newfields (near Dayton) and Riverton and Gananda (outside Rochester) were begun when the nearby metropolitan areas were losing jobs. Other towns like Flower Mound were located outside the path of growth of their cities. As a result, all the HUD new towns have experienced slower-than-expected growth. Flower Mound has attracted only 420 residents in six years, out of a projected eventual population of 61,141. Gananda was a ghost town until a developer took over last year. Besides that, a number...
...Maumelle, Ark.; Shenandoah, Ga.; Park Forest South, Ill.; St. Charles, Md.; Cedar-Riverside and Jonathan, Minn.; Gananda and Riverton, N.Y.; Soul City, N.C.; Newfields, Ohio; Harbison, S.C.; Flower Mound and The Woodlands, Texas...
...economy. The developers have been painfully squeezed between spiraling building costs on one side and dwindling mortgage-money supplies on the other. Making matters worse, many developers were so anxious to try out their brave new ideas that they lost sight of marketing realities. To take only one example, Riverton, ten miles from Rochester, N.Y., built town houses in tight clusters surrounded by open space. But would-be home buyers in the area were not impressed by this good planning precept; they wanted separate houses with spacious yards. Says Otto Stolz, director of the new-communities program...
...thing in common: poverty. In Floyd County, Ky., for example, 21% of the children C.D.F. interviewed said that their parents could not afford to buy books or pay the required school fees. There was a wide racial and ethnic mix among the children. In the predominantly white Riverton Housing Project in Portland, Me., 11% of all school-age children were not attending school. In one census tract in New Bedford, Mass., 73% of all children of Portuguese descent were out of class. In the Northgate Housing Project in Montgomery, Ala., 27% of all 16-and 17-year-old blacks...