PART III Foundations of Contemporary ED/CD As the reader begins Part III she might consider that one foot is firmly lodged in the past, while
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Chapter 15: Sun Belt Urban Renewal/Revitalization Vignettes II: San Diego, a Pacific Coast Can’t Do Perspective–On the Cusp of Neighborhoods and Environmentalism
San Diego San Diego wound up not accepting federal UR dollars. The Californian city is far from Houston or Dallas; it had a long history
Chapter 15: Sun Belt Urban Renewal/Revitalization Vignettes II: Norfolk and Oklahoma City
Norfolk: Southern-Fried Urban Renewal Norfolk Virginia is the more typical “southern” Age of UR city. Smaller cities have “smaller” corporate elites, but they are pragmatic—to
Chapter 15: Sun Belt Urban Renewal/Revitalization Vignettes: California (Sacramento and the Origins of Tax Increment Financing), and Atlanta (Hartsfield, Allen and the Good Ole Boys)
SUNBELT UR VIGNETTES To provide flavor and detail, several vignettes of Sunbelt UR are provided below. Each presents a variation in UR implementation throughout the
Chapter 15: the Postwar Sun Belt Approach to Urban Renewal/Revitalization: Simultaneous Suburbanization, Domeism, western regional hierarchy competition, Urban Policy Systems and Political Culture, Initial Contrast with Northern Big Cities
POSTWAR SUNBELT UR When utilized in whatever form, western and southern UR served purposes other than, or in addition to, anti-suburbanization. The Sunbelt, its central
Chapter 15: the Philadelphia Story: Business Coalition and Policy System Change (Joseph Clark, Richardson Dilworth), Edmund Bacon–the Planners Implement UR, Society Hill, Planners and Economic Developers Split and the “Birth of Eds and Meds”
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY When one smushes urban renewal into one large ideological mass, it is easy to lose the real-time reality that UR was an
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