Harland Bartholomew and Corpus Christi: the faltering pursuit of comprehensive planning in South Texas

Lessoff, Alan

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“…16 Such concerns explain why those officials turned to Harland Bartholomew and Associates, a well-respected city planning firm that had already furnished plans for places such as Dallas, Fort Worth, and Corpus Christi. 17 Hired in 1956 to produce a comprehensive plan for the city, Bartholomew's completed document (1958) characterized the city's slums and blight as "both social and economic liabilities" and recommended a "vigorous housing improvement program taking full advantage of federal and state housing legislation and federal funds currently available." The plan also emphasized the need to remove the slums bordering Baylor University not only because planners viewed them as the city's worst housing but because they inhibited the school's ability to expand the physical campus.…”

Section: Waco's War On Slumsmentioning

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Federal Urban Renewal in Three Small Texas Cities: A Mixed Legacy

Fairbanks

2020

Journal of Planning History

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When it comes to the federal urban renewal program, Texas has often been dismissed as a conservative state since large cities like Dallas and Houston refused to participate. But a closer look at Texas shows that smaller cities such as Lubbock, Waco, and Grand Prairie did indeed embrace the program. Unlike northern cities which employed urban renewal to retard decline, these Texas cities embraced it to promote growth and to improve race relations. Because of segregation, blacks had few standard neighborhoods to reside in and civic leaders saw new opportunities to better black living conditions offered by urban renewal.

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Section: Waco's War On Slumsmentioning

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Federal Urban Renewal in Three Small Texas Cities: A Mixed Legacy

Fairbanks

2020

Journal of Planning History

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A study in Modern(ist) urbanism: planning Vancouver, 1945–1965

Liscombe

2011

Urban History

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ABSTRACT:The implementation of Modern Movement town planning is still regarded as both rapid and relatively unproblematic in the aftermath of World War II. A more complex narrative emerges from an examination of the urban redevelopment policy and practice at Vancouver, British Columbia, during the immediate World War II decades. The analysis focuses on the civic and professional discourse of redevelopment. It illuminates the diverse interests and processes by which Modernist planning theory and practice were introduced, modified and resisted. New concepts and values are shown to have been subject to internal no less than external forces of revision.

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Harland Bartholomew and Corpus Christi: the faltering pursuit of comprehensive planning in South Texas

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Federal Urban Renewal in Three Small Texas Cities: A Mixed Legacy

Federal Urban Renewal in Three Small Texas Cities: A Mixed Legacy

A study in Modern(ist) urbanism: planning Vancouver, 1945–1965

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