In 1949, signed by President Harry Truman, the Housing Act, the federal, state and local governments, given the unprecedented power to make living. About 2,000 villages destroyed in 1950 and '60, and forced more than 300,000 families from their homes - one of the most important initiatives of the Housing Act - "Urban Renewal". In total, about half of the urban renewal of the victims were blacks, a fact which led the famous James Baldwin quipped that "urban renewal means Negro removal." New York CityManhattan Town (1951) was one of the first projects under the Urban Renewal approves and took the model not only for the hundreds of urban renewal projects, but for the next 60 years for abuse of eminent domain in such places as Poletown, New London and Atlantic Yards. The Manhattan Project destroyed six city blocks on the West Side of New York City, including an African-American community, dating from the end of the century. The city sold the land for a symbolic sum of a group of well-NetworkPolo Democratico, to build a residential class. Then came the bulldozers phenomenon often-repeated and random with little financial skin in the game, the developers have destroyed the land sit vacant for years. The church was destroyed in the heart of Manhattan a model for close-knit neighborhoods and then interconnected by Jane Jacobs and other critics of top-down restructuring celebrated. In the early 20 century was only the Town Center in Manhattan in black music scene in New York.A surprising ...
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