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Planners have long known that a far better answer to downtown blight is to attract higher-income families back to town. Many cities have pondered how to do this, and some have tried. In one of the best efforts so far, Detroit last week opened the first unit of Lafayette Plaisance University City, an all privately financed and operated $30 million development of 1,029 rental and 938 cooperative apartments in a onetime slum area. When completed. University City, only half a mile from the heart of downtown Detroit, will occupy a 55-acre park with six 22-story glass...
High Return. Accepting the challenge, young (41) Detroit Builder Herbert S. Greenwald and famed German-born Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe turned out a design that won architects' praise, bank loans, FHA mortgage guarantees. As fast as they complete one building unit, they pay the city an average of $125,000 for the land. The city then buys more slum land for urban renewal. Not only merchants will profit from the redevelopment; city real-estate tax collections from the area will jump...
...surface, it would seem that Munro is in for a year of rebuilding. But if the fullbacks stay healthy, if the half-backs develop into some kind of a unit, and if the forwards produce a scoring punch, the Crimson could become the proverbial "dark horse" in the Ivy League...
President Pusey himself, he stated, has referred to Dudley as "the Eighth House." Leighton said he hoped to make the non-resident House into "a House unit comparable with but different from the residential Houses...
...definite decision was made in 1952, he said, that the size of the College would not be restricted to those able to be housed by the University. For this reason, Leighton emphasized, "it is important that we should have a unit that is not limited to students of full residence...