POST Great Society COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Unlike mainstream business-focused economic development which had congealed around chambers and port authorities, postwar community development seemed more like a
Author: edcurmudgeon
Chapter 17: The seventies: Transition into a New Order
The seventies: the world turned upside down When Cornwallis marched out of 1781 Yorktown, his band allegedly played “The World Turned Upside Down.” During
Chapter 16: Nixonian Thermidor: New Federalism, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Nixon’s Workforce Initiatives, 1974 Housing and Community Development Act,Historic Preservation Act of 1976,EDA Changes its Stripes, SBA; Last Thoughts on Great Society
NIXONIAN THERMIDOR Nixon won in 1968—an election in which one candidate (RFK) and Martin Luther King were assassinated. Vietnam War protests and summer riots continued;
Chapter 16: HUD and Model Cities, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, RIOTS
HUD and Model Cities It started in the spring of 1964 when LBJ selected Dr Robert C. Wood (Chapter 14’s conflicted suburbanite) to head a
Chapter 16: Council of Urban Economic Development and American Economic Development Council
Council of Urban Economic Development EDA’s top leadership assigned its chief of urban projects, Andy Bennett, to develop an urban constituency and a non-rural role
Chapter 16: the (Economic Development) Great Society: War on Poverty, SBA, Housing Act of 1964, Housing and Urban Development (HUD),Appalachian Regional Development Act: the South and Great Society,Economic Development Administration (EDA)
THE GREAT SOCIETY Upon entering office, LBJ crafted his domestic program. Calling it “the Great Society,” it was launched in his January 1964 State of
Ron W. Coan 