Author: George D. YoungerPublisher:
ISBN:
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.
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.
Streets of Glory
Author: Omar M. McRobertsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226562174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Long considered the lifeblood of black urban neighborhoods, churches are thought to be dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. But Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, a tough Boston neighborhood containing twenty-nine congregations, reveals a very different picture.
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.
The Church and Urban Renewal
Author: George D. YoungerPublisher:
ISBN:
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.
Apostles of Change
Author: Felipe HinojosaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477321985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel church communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
Urban Renewal Notes
Author: Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Urban Renewal
Author: National Housing Center (U.S.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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