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@David Alpert, my point is that the plan you posted intended to have the same, if not more, units than what existed at the time. That was the plan. And I'm pretty sure many urban renewal plans, including Southwest, achieved that. The failure was that the government initiative relied on private developers to carry it off. Once the financing and building by developers took over from the planners, it was a gradual inflation of rents that resulted in the displacement of the poor. Generally the poor were planned to be rehoused in the new housing, instead they were displaced when the developers set the rents were too damn high.

You need to get a hold of two books with hard numbers from the era. Cities in a Race with Time (1968) and Where are they Now (1966)

Here's a sociology blogger with a synopsis of Where are they Now that would make an interesting coda to the original post. http://sociologyinmyneighborhood.blogspot.com/2011/08/urban-renewal-and-grief-in-ward-6.html

by crin on Jul 10, 2012 6:40 am • link • report

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