Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
Nothing can be done to implement these plans through Urban Renewal until Housing Inspection is established and the administrative mechanisms are in working order. As yet they are non-existent...
...nearing reality, which means that the slums will be replaced by industry. But if the fact that something was done looks hopeful, the stumbling, hesitant, often ludicrous incompetence with which the program has been carried out should also serve as a warning to those who see Urban Renewal as a panacea. Inexperience, administrative red tape, and sheer incompetence almost killed this project and the problems will redouble if a really substantial is initiated...
...year to study admissions, Personnel Director John Teele has been put at the head of an office on Expansion, and a lot of top level discussion and planning has begun. Several outside groups have also entered the picture. The city of Cambridge has instituted a halting program of Urban Renewal to combat local conditions, and the Design School has begun research to assemble information relevant to planning...