Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh, spoke on the redevelopment of the "point area" of Pittsburgh. The creation of the Point Park and the development of the Golden Triangle show a basic civic design for Pittsburgh, Lawrence said. He also outlined further projects for slum clearance and redevelopment...
Cooperation is especially evident whenever a common problem arises. On January 12, the Harvard and M.I.T. administrators met to discuss possible plans for Urban Renewal. Both agreed that they should cooperate in combatting the slum menace, but since the city must take the final decision on such aid, no definite policy...
...underground parking for 1,500 cars. In addition, the partners last week won a contract to master-plan a long-range, $5,000,000 remodeling program at Los Angeles' Occidental College, started work on a 100-room addition to the Disneyland hotel, and a $40 million Los Angeles slum-clearance project. The new business brought P. & L.'s five-year contract total to well over $1.1 billion. "I think," grinned Chuck Luckman, "we're adjusting our art to the realities of life...
Thus far, the opponents of slum life have had a discouraging fight. The City Council and the HHFA have approved the "Workable Program", first step in putting renewal into action. But before anything can be done, the city must appoint an Urban Renewal Coordinator and a Redevelopment Commission. City Manager Curry is still looking for the right man to fill the coordinator's post. Nothing has been done about the Commission...
...Harvard, like the Federal Government, can only support the program. It cannot put it over. The city must choose for or against the slum pattern, and if they are to choose against, they must choose soon, before there is no room for choice...