Urban Renewal Quotes

• Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Opportunity, Attention

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Years, Rebuilding

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

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• I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Home, Mean, Sister In Law

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• We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

  David Byrne

  Mom, Community, Fabric

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• When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Doctors, Hiroshima

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• The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Sweet, Good Times

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• Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Creating, Yield

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