THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION The “Peculiar” Context of Southern Economic Development FDR’s southern strategies were fundamental, even radical—focused on infrastructure and an
Category: As Two Ships Chapter Topics
Chapter 12: Introduction and the Alleged Catalyst: BAWI (Balance Agriculture with Industry)
The South: New Deal, World War II, and the fifties INTRODUCTION The shift to the South from the last chapter’s concentration on Big City slum
Chapter 11: Urban Renewal? Trying to Make Sense of this Chapter
URBAN RENEWAL? Two long-term takeaways follow from this section. The first observation to the observant reader is that, concentrating as we did on Housing Acts,
Chapter 11: Late Forties Urban Renewal: Taft and Housing Acts, Business Steals Urban Renewal from CD
TAFT GOES TO WASHINGTON The 1949 Housing Act Breaks the Logjam More than a decade had passed since the 1937 Housing Act. The winds of
Chapter 11: Robert Moses Leads the Parade: Moses as an Burnham-style ED planner, Pittsburgh and David Lawrence, the United Nations Project–the Breakout,
New York and Robert Moses: Policy Innovation or Abuse? A 1940 New York City Planning Commission plan offered a strategy: to rehouse the poor, stabilize
Chapter 11: Suburban Decentralization Rears its Ugly Head (mid-1940’s): CBD decline is the reason, the “business slum” battles it out with CD public neighborhood housing focus, the locals take the lead–Redevelopment Agency and Baltimore as a Case Study
DECENTRALIZATION ACCELERATES: HOUSING AND SLUM CLEARANCE BECOMES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT During the New Deal, Herb Nelson and NAREB might as well have been in the
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