Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even these changes cannot completely counteract the overall metropolitan pattern. Most people do not want to live in a slum even when their own home is a palace. The only alternative is to attack the existing pattern, trying to develop a new pattern through Urban Renewal...
...these problems are only a manifestation of the overall illness of a city which has not adapted wisely to changing conditions. Harvard cannot be fitted to a slum community, and Harvard cannot move. The same applies to a number of other industries and institutions...
Second, that while such slum adaptation is natural, and requires little capital, in the long run it demoralizes both the economy and the society. The theory of Urban Renewal is that if the initial energy and capital are found for efficient assimilation of large numbers, the economy will get a boost, and the society will become healthier...
...plan is simple, but not easy. First, the opponents of slums must formulate an alternative to slum life: a long range plan for balancing commerce, industry and residence, creating adequate schools, parks, playgrounds, streets, parking space, and civic centers, and putting the community on a sound financial footing...
...short, while a city faced with crowding has to raise capital for intelligent adaptation, a city like Cambridge which has already progressed a long way into slum life must also face the opposition of those who do not want to go back...