In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a fair housing movement made up of white-collar professionals and housewives rapidly emerged in the Route 128 suburbs outside of Boston. The Boston network, which eventually included thirty-five hundred members and t…
Municipalities in imperial Brazil were required by law to provide a substantial range of public services to their communities, yet the structure of the tax code allocated meager fiscal resources to finance the full complement of these services. Munici…
This essay uses the history of a single urban renewal project, the residential Washington Park project in Roxbury, Boston, to illuminate the multiple ways in which ideas about race and strategies for improving black life helped shape the postwar urban…
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This essay uses the history of the South Side Planning Board (SSPB)—an organization committed to battling urban blight in Chicago—to show how urban renewal backers used the concepts of social organization and disorganization to speak to th…
In 1957, local newspaper the Princeton Packet announced plans to develop integrated housing in Princeton and West Windsor Townships, New Jersey. These developments and the events surrounding them illustrate the racial and class implications of integra…
This essay argues that the settlement movement was inextricably bound up with the life and death of urban renewal. It traces the origins and development of the urban narratives that motivated and sustained settlement workers’ complex involvement…
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This article uses a case study of Spokane, Washington’s preparations for Expo ’74 to examine the environmental dimensions of urban renewal. Scholars often think of urban renewal as a planning project influenced by distinct racial exclusion…
Barcelona’s transformation into a global destination after Spain’s transition to democracy has received significant attention from international scholarship, but this is less the case for developments under Franco’s dictatorship (193…
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