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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (114): 206–215.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani This article explores Bendiner-Viani's visual urbanist Layered SPURA project, which explores the everyday experience of housing, urban renewal, and urban change at the highly contested Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a failed urban renewal site on New York City's Lower East...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 62–82.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., primarily white suburbanites, while destroying resources publicly available to minority and working-class communities. Understanding Baltimore's highway protests as anti-enclosure activism shows how the residents of postwar cities in the United States experienced destructive urban renewal and highway...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 145–165.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Laura Renata Martin Abstract This article examines the opposing sides taken by elderly tenants and labor unions over a major urban renewal project in 1970s San Francisco. Tenant activists sought to block the construction of the Yerba Buena Center and the resulting relocation of thousands of elderly...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (112): 65–87.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Jacobs
Brian Tochterman
Jane Jacobs was one of the most important figures in defining the “urban crisis”
of the 1960s and 1970s. In the narrative of the crisis, Jacobs, a seasoned critic and
activist, became the face of resistance to Robert Moses’s destructive urban renewal
and highway...
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Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 86–97.
Published: 01 October 1979
... of corporate capitalism, which seek to transform this old in-
dustrial city into a new corporate/service city through urban renewal
and the destruction of working class communities. Such a struggle
over social space is not an abstraction but a bloody political encounter
that must be understood...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 1999
... be borne out
in subsequent decades of urban renewal.
Finally, two briefings in this issue by Lisa Brock and Krista Harper
turn a critical eye on contemporary struggles over the environment, the
public space, and natural resources. Brock describes her conversation
with exiled activist Barine...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 112–136.
Published: 01 May 1999
... through ill-conceived urban renewal programs, and
unabated suburban sprawl, have made notions of oppositional politics
among them-rather than opposition directed at them-difficult to dis-
cern. Roy Lubove has argued that in Pittsburgh, private capital largely
led and underwrote the postwar urban...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 65–95.
Published: 01 May 1999
... as an abundance of area, 40 percent of the city,
open to apartments rather than exclusively set aside for single family
homes.43
In the 1950s, Portland city planners began to turn to strategies of
”urban renewal” in order to plan for the city’s future development and
to fix what were seen as existing...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (114): 1–5.
Published: 01 October 2012
... residents harnessed the power of the image and public art to
produce their own narratives about the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA)
on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. From interactive tours to exhibitions, she
works with students and local residents to visualize both the history...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 1–11.
Published: 01 January 2011
...-year-long urban planning conflict that began in 1968 during a period
of urban renewal in metropolitan Baltimore. On the surface, the construction of
a highway would appear to be the opposite of enclosure. It was open to an undif-
ferentiated public and built with public money as a matter...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (87): 242–243.
Published: 01 October 2003
... on
working class communities, Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization (2003). His
current research involves urban renewal, public housing, and industrial change in the United
States after World War II.
Robin D. G. Kelley is professor of history...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1976) 1976 (11): 53–54.
Published: 01 May 1976
... was to soften up
the initial stone-wall attitude of BHE members against John Jay. It now
appears that a considerably reduced John Jay will survive; probably York
will be able to remain a four-year college (it is part of a massive capi•
tal investment led by Chase Manhattan in an urban renewal project...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 173–179.
Published: 01 October 2018
... urbanization is advancing at such a rapid pace that construction sites have become all but ubiquitous. Fueled by infrastructural developments, urban renewal, and real estate speculation, many of these construction sites are not only massive, they are also proliferating on the urban fringes and even...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (31): 93–96.
Published: 01 December 1984
... experience in the Pullman shops,
especially after the headline-capturing events of the
1890s; in fact Pullman appears to have had no history
between 1900 and the urban renewal projects of the 1970s
that fostered the documentary. "Palace Cars and
Paradise" regrettably is neither...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (122): 55–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
...
the distribution of federal antipoverty dollars to neighborhoods within John F. Ken-
nedy’s and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society initiatives. In crafting the Great Soci-
ety’s Model Cities program, a new strategy for urban renewal meant to encourage
African American’s sense of full citizenship by allowing...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (113): 67–80.
Published: 01 May 2012
... against women. Instead
of asking, as others have, what effect Women Against Pornography had on Times
Square, I ask: how did this organization seek to reshape urban space by appeal -
ing to like-minded citizens rather than the state? How did questions about urban
renewal converge with and diverge...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 73–89.
Published: 01 October 2008
...
the relationship between urban renewal and antipornography legislation in Minne-
apolis during the 1980s, vice crusading and representations of Minneapolis’s urban
environment in the 1950s, contemporary perceptions of gay residents in real estate
marketing, African American community organizing in the 1970s...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (57): 221–241.
Published: 01 October 1993
... for cities-f organizing a nation’s transport sys-
tem around the private automobile. What are the costs in pollution,
in traffic, in living arrangements? What political initiatives-high-
way acts, urban renewal-facilitated the triumph of the auto and
the demise of mass transit? The London Transport...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (121): 145–168.
Published: 01 January 2015
... that intraracial conversations
about “noise” and its abatement became more important — and abundant — in the
Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, precisely as a mode of community building in a
time of economic decline, so-called urban renewal, increasing segregation, and
shifting demographics due to Puerto...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (130): 100–130.
Published: 01 January 2018
... in every corner
of the empire in honor of the king with very similar form and content, were a new
urban phenomenon associated with the inner or enclosed space of the production of
culture, and reflected the renewed ancient principle of rule via civitas that regarded
the city as the place of civil...
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