National Planning for Urban Renewal: The Paper Moon in the Cardboard Sky

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In the post World War II era, national planning concerns have been eclipsed from professional view, as planners plunged into the tasks of city, housing, and transportation planning. But since 1954 there has been a marked evolution of early redevelopment thinking into a concept of urban renewal which recognizes the indivisibility of renewal and development and which, with the push of political and business leaders, has become as ambitiously “comprehensive” as master planning itself. This new renewal, though enthusiastically adopted by some local administrations, has made very little headway in an economy in which the local governments have few economic powers and in which the national government has no place for renewal in its plans and pursues simultaneously conflicting economic policies. Suggestions are offered for institutional and policy changes which might need to be made if urban renewal were to be a serious national program.

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