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...Perhaps that would be enough to convert an abandoned industrial site on the south side into a low-cost, no-frills Obama library — as well as a symbol of urban renewal....
...In the New Jersey commuter town where Gallagher’s parents lived, it was common to have four or five children....
...“When one party moves this far from the center, it is extremely difficult to respond to the country’s most pressing challenges.”...
...The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren’t structures; cities are people....
...They, in turn, would be seduced by the ease of sedentary life and succumb to another generation of desert warriors, creating an endless circle of renewal....
...The tale of its quiet transformation from depressed steel town to US President Barack Obama’s exemplar for urban renewal in fewer than 30 years is worth a listen, if only to warn of the dangers of depending...
...Unlike some parts of Pittsburgh, where massive urban renewal efforts made historic neighbourhoods look like anodyne suburbs (Florida calls them “urban removal” projects), Lawrenceville retains its character...
...Urban renewal is also an old trope in a city where the 1950s “Renaissance Center”, meant to be a symbol of a revived downtown, is full of empty offices....
...The murders left Cory Booker, the city’s dynamic young mayor, a 38-year-old former Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate elected last year on a promise of urban renewal, as rattled and despondent as...
...And, even if spottily, urban renewal is also coming to the largest parts of town where two-thirds of the population lives. Black Washington hasexperienced hard times....
...Then, in May 2006, one of Delhomme’s allies suggested in a local newspaper that a $6m urban renewal scheme for Spring Valley’s Main Street was in fact a conspiracy to benefit Jewish landlords at the expense...
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