To win their support, the Carter administration expanded urban aid to include “non-distressed” communities. As a result, thousands of municipalities free of urban blight have used federal money to ...

Expanding Opportunities in America’s Urban Areas. To ensure that more people benefit from the opportunities cities create, the Center for American Progress has compiled key policy proposals that ...

URBAN DECAY IN THE 1960's When John Gardner formed the Urban Coalition in 1970, he and his co-founders were responding to a dramatic turn in the state of America's cities.

Fight Blight! That was the heartfelt slogan of better housing advocates in the late 1950s and 1960s.

The sheer scale of abandonment in Detroit is unmatched in America. A city of 1.8 million people in 1950, Detroit’s population has plummeted by almost two-thirds.

When President Eisenhower created the U.S. Interstate Highway System in 1956, transportation planners tore through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that, through intention and indifference ...

And there is Washington, D.C., Janus-faced, marked by the symbolism and monumentality of the public capital as well as the blight of its depressed neighborhoods. Krieger is sensitive to backlashes ...

LIFE.com remembers a series of photographs made in Chicago in 1954 and featured in LIFE in the spring of 1955, focusing on what the magazine called the "encroaching menace" of the city's slums.

The greatest real estate turnaround ever Charlotte Street in New York City's South Bronx was once the epicenter of urban blight. No longer. Now single-family homes line the strip and boats sit in ...

This was 1967, the era of the Vietnam War, racial tension, and urban blight, when a group of liberal satirists launched a prank so well-executed it would later be called “the hoax of the century.” ...

LA’s Griffith Park is one of the largest urban parks in the country, ... 1800s curse led to the birth of one of America’s oldest urban parks. Hosted by Steve Chiotakis Oct. 31, 2023 Holidays. ... The ...