Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Banking, Currency, and HousingU.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
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Page 72 - We did not, for the most part, build great cities in this country; manufacturing firms agglomerated in tight industrial complexes and formed labor pools of half a million workers. That is not the same thing as building great cities. . . . Our great industrial transformation has left us with a large number of overgrown "cities" — a ramification we have not faced up to.
Page 20 - IS A MOST ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF AN URBAN SOCIAL REFORM PROGRAM. CERTAIN LEVELS OF DENSITY NO LONGER MAKE TOLERABLE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT. ONLY A GENERAL PLAN WITH PUBLIC LAND OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL BEING THE DECISIVE FORCES IN CRITICAL AREAS CAN DO THE JOB. OTHERWISE, CHARLES ABRAMS' DEPICTION OF SQUATTERS AROUND THE WALL WILL BECOME PART OF THE AMERICAN SCENE AS WELL.
Page 5 - There are, in fact, increasing signs that the issue of whether the national government should intervene in matters of local structure will become the central question of domestic policy in the next decade. Reasons why this debate is likely to intensify are not hard to find. Unless the federal government intervenes in some way in structural matters, it is hard to see how national policy can on an equitable basis, and on a significant scale, deal with the social and economic problems of central cities.
Page iv - ... innovations, acting in concert with long-standing cultural predispositions and accumulating market forces, which have finally congealed into the dynamic which now confronts us. Current trends of metropolitan decline may be a continuation of long-standing processes that began with a more publicized migrational pattern, the resynthesis of American life in suburbia. While conventionally viewed as a post World War II transformation whose triggering mechanisms were a pent up housing demand, increased...
Page 8 - ... if one is always looking for unusual circumstances and dramatic events, he cannot appreciate how difficult it is to make the ordinary happen.
Page iii - Post-industrial" does not, of course, tell one what the new age is, but only what it isn't. But we meant this time to be a professional-service age. What happened to this new force that was supposed to come in and rebuild the cores of our aging metropolises? . . . The service age just has not come to the fore to rescue the big cities. Regional Growth Patterns 1. Since 1970, the Northeast has lost population through substantial out-migration. Between 1940 and 1970, it had a net out-migration of whites...
Page 70 - ... developments, configurations which are substantially incongruent to the parameters of the central city. While new urban industrial areas have been generated in part as a function of urban renewal, their magnitude is not sufficient and their advent is too late, according to this thesis, to effectively stem the tide. A parallel element in this approach has been the historic development of infrastructure, which now represents very substantial capital and operating costs but, given the decline in...
Page 72 - Those areas declining most rapidly have been the central cities of the metropolitan areas that emerged during the 19th century, built on productive power, massed population and industrial technology. By the end of the century, these new cities had been credited with the creation of a system of social life founded on entirely new principles. A short half-century later they have become obsolete. These flowers of industrial urbanization — the great manufacturing belt metropolitan areas — are lagging....