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;
Category: As Two Ships Chapter Topics
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
Chapter 16: Innovation in Community Development: Woodlawn, Gray Areas and Mobilization for Youth (MFY), Experts and Bureaucratic Bowels
INNOVATION IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Men may find God in Nature, but when they look at cities, they are viewing themselves. (Paul Ylvisaker, Life Magazine) While
Chapter 16: The sixties: THE KENNEDY YEARS: Area Development Act, Public Works Acceleration Act (1962), 1962 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA)
Chapter 16 Begins: The sixties So we begin “Contemporary Economic/Community Development.” This chapter concentrates on the 1960s. Two motifs (themes) dominate our chapter: the federal
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