Author: Lyle E. SchallerPublisher:
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Category : City churches
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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The Challenge of Urban Renewal to the Churches of America
Author: Lyle E. SchallerPublisher:
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Category : City churches
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Renewal
Author: Mark WildPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022660523X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries’ complicity with colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home. Renewal explores the rise and fall of this movement, which began as an effort to restore the church’s standing but wound up as nothing less than an openhearted crusade to remake our nation’s cities. These campaigns reached beyond church walls to build or lend a hand to scores of organizations fighting for welfare, social justice, and community empowerment among the increasingly nonwhite urban working class. Church leaders extended their efforts far beyond traditional evangelicalism, often dovetailing with many of the contemporaneous social currents coursing through the nation, including black freedom movements and the War on Poverty. Renewal illuminates the overlooked story of how religious institutions both shaped and were shaped by postwar urban America.
Urban Renewal
Author: National Housing Center (U.S.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Saving America's Cities
Author: Lizabeth CohenPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374721602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.
The Challenge of Urban Renewal
Author: M. Carter McFarlandPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The Church and Urban Renewal
Author: George D. YoungerPublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A study which grew out of the 1963-64 investigation made in seven cities by a team from the United Presbyterian Church.
Renewing the City
Author: Robert D. LuptonPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830833269
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.
Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4Publisher:
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Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: The Church's Stake in Urban Renewal
Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages :
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