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unusual facts about Urban Renewal


Glasgow bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games

The village would be purpose-built to house 6,000 athletes and officials in 2,500 residential units and leave a legacy of regeneration in this deprived district of the city.


Honeysuckle, Newcastle

The Honeysuckle development utilised a top-down, modernist, rational model based on similar urban renewal projects worldwide, such as New York's Battery Park City, London’s Canary Wharf, and Melbourne’s Docklands.

L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs

Named after Laurie Perry Cookingham, the Institute promotes community building and development as a means to contribute to urban area revitalization through scholarship, practice and community engagement in the Kansas City area.

Larry Bagneris, Jr.

Due to a U.S. Federal program of "Urban Renewal" of the 1960s, the Bagneris Family relocated to the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.

Shae Jones

In addition to her solo career, Jones also appeared on Sisqó's Unleash the Dragon, Gina Thompson's If You Only Knew, Tamia's A Nu Day, Whitney Houston's The Greatest Hits and the Phil Collins tribute Urban Renewal.

West End, Cincinnati

The historic West End was largely razed in the 1950s as part of a series of urban renewal projects, including the construction of Interstate 75.


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Barrack Street

The section between Murray Street and Wellington Street saw a minor urban renewal with Barrack Plaza officially opening on 12 July 2006.

Breakfast Point, New South Wales

Breakfast Point is the location of one of the largest urban renewal projects in Sydney on a site formerly belonging to AGL.

Chicago 21

The Chicago 21 Plan, a 1970s urban renewal plan for the city of Chicago

David Beauchamp

In the 1970s Beauchamp collaborated with George Tibbits and Miles Lewis on an analyisis of the historic fabric of Carlton, for which they were awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (Victorian Chapter) Robin Boyd Environmental Medal for their report Urban Renewal Carlton an Analysis.

Downtown Norfolk, Virginia

However, Norfolk's urban renewal also included the demolition of many prominent city buildings, including the former City Market, Norfolk Terminal Station (the Union railroad station), The Monticello Hotel, and large swaths of urban fabric that, were they still in existence today, might be the source of additional historic urban character, including the East Main Street district (where the current civic complex is located).

Frank Sartor

Despite this, the Authority was able to deliver urban renewal projects for a number of derelict sites including the former Redfern Public School and a substantial redevelopment of the Australian Technology Park to incorporate headquarters for the Sydney television station Channel Seven.

Jose Cha Cha Jimenez

When the Young Lords were just a street gang they respected and looked for guidance from dominant Black gangs like the Egyptian Cobras and the Almighty Vice Lord Nation as well as the Black P. Stones, a new large group from the Urban Renewal designated area of 63rd street.

Kenton Library

The Portland Development Commission carried out a $2.85 million urban-renewal project in Kenton in 2010.

Koog aan de Zaan

A8ernA, an urban renewal project for the space under the A8 motorway as it passes through Koog aan de Zaan, was a joint winner of the 2006 European Prize for Urban Public Space.

Morris A. Mechanic Theatre

Mechanic died while the building was under construction and the opening gala on January 16, 1967 was presided-over by his widow, actress Elaine Swann, Mayor Theodore McKeldin and Eugene M. Feinblatt, chairman of the Baltimore Urban Renewal and Housing Agency.

Nathaniel Milljour

His artwork was chosen in 2008 by Calgary Transit for their urban renewal program, "Art in Motion" where local artists works were chosen to help decorate unsightly utility boxes in downtown Calgary.

New York state public-benefit corporations

Newark Legal and Communications Center Urban Renewal Corporation

Place Matters

Re-envisioning the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area: The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) was a 1960s-era "slum clearance" project on the Lower East Side that was demolished but never fully redeveloped.

Rizal Avenue

In 2000, during the mayorship of Lito Atienza, the stretch from C.M. Recto Avenue to Palanca Street was turned into a pedestrian-only thoroughfare by laying bricks on the road, with the buildings and the LRT painted as part of an urban renewal project.

Saltire

During a campaign of urban renewal by the Yaoundé Urban Council in Cameroon, the cross was popularly referred to as "Tsimi's Cross" after the Government Delegate to Yaoundé Urban Council Gilbert Tsimi Evouna.

Southorn Playground

The Wan Chai District Council and the British Council invited English designer Thomas Heatherwick and urban renewal specialist Fred Manson to improve the amenity, which is now a concrete rectangle with games courts painted on.