Urban renewal

In 1959, the city quarter in which we were located became part of the first urban renewal project in the U.S.A. We received land from the city of Boston to build a new research building. I was happy and excited. 

Billing itself as the capital of the New South, Atlanta s recent urban renewal has made it a wonderful destination for travelers. Restaurants have been a key component of the conversion from old to new. Atlanta s modern approach to cuisine includes a respect for organic and plant-based cuisines that is rare anywhere else in the South. 

The Housing and Home Finance Agency and the Urban Renewal Administration will now make master planning grants to local authorities available for planning the incorporation of fallout shelters in urban redevelopment projects. In addition, local authorities may include fallout shelters in site development improvements and receive full credit toward the local share of the project. 

Housing Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 1486(f) 42 U.S.C. 1452b(e)). Provides financial assistance for low-rent housing for domestic farm labor. The Act further provides for loans, through public or private agencies, where feasible, to owners or tenants of property in urban renewal areas to finance rehabilitation required to conform the property to applicable code requirements or carry out the objectives of the urban renewal plan for the area. 

The project aims to construct a state-of-the-art rapid rail connection, which would be the first for South Africa. The total length will be approximately 50 mi (84 km), and the train will travel at speeds between 99 and 112 m/h (159 and 180 km/h) (Fig. 39.1). Travel time between Pretoria and Johannesburg is estimated to be 40 min (currently with eongestion it can take up to 2 h by car), and an estimated 64,000 passenger trips per day is foreseen. The three anchor stations are to be the CBDs of the two cities and the Johannesburg international airport (Fig. 39.2). Another six stations are proposed at development nodes. The three anchor stations are in line with the national government s urban renewal strategy that emphasizes inner city redevelopment. 

Given the history of urban renewal and the national controversy over eminent domain, any attempt to compel those last homeowners, such as the Detroit home-owner in the last occupied home on her desolate block who told a reporter I refuse to move unless the Lord says so (Hackney, 2009), is doomed to failure. While there are undoubtedly many owners who feel trapped in houses without the possibility of sale, and lack the money to move, helping them move is likely to be a slow, incremental process, hindered by the city s chronic shortage of financial resources. No salient research exists that might help cities better manage such strategies. 

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