urban renewal 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/25/2020
A Virginia State Senator Found Headstones on His Property. It Brought to Light a Historic Injustice in D.C.
Columbian Harmony is among at least five major African American cemeteries in D.C. that were obliterated in the past century for the sake of development.
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8/30/2020
The Proud City: Patrick Abercrombie's Unfulfilled Plan for Rebuilding London
by Simon Jenkins
In 1942, the British government endorsed a plan that turned the Blitz into an opportunity for massive centrally-planned rebuilding of London. This was a break from the previous anarchic pattern of development, and, for better or worse, today's eclectic metropolis owes its form to the failure of the plan.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
7/22/2020
Tearing Down Black America
by Brent Cebul
Ensuring that Black Lives Matter doesn't just require police reform. The history of urban renewal shows that governments have worked to dismantle and destabilize Black communities in the name of progress.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
7/5/2020
MIT Professor Tunney Lee, an Architect, Urban Planner, and Historian of Chinatown, Dies at 88
An architecture professor who taught at MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong is remembered as a historian of Chinese American community and an advocate for including the public in the process of planning.
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SOURCE: CityLab
6/3/2020
The Racial Injustice of American Highways
Demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in the Twin Cities occupied a major artery that tore apart a thriving African-American neighborhood.
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5-1-16
Why Jane Jacobs Matters Now
by Peter L. Laurence
The answer is in her last book, which almost no one reads or remembers. But her biographer thinks it’s the one we need now.
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