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Re: Small-town urban renewal
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"Michael D. Bathrick" <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:29:49 -0500
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Not just in New York, either.  It was a "raze it and they will build"
mentality which didn't work for anyone.

Mike

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Scott Monje wrote:

> I have run across a couple of instances of "urban renewal" projects in small cities or towns in New York in the 1970s in which old structures were razed but little or nothing new was built to replace them. Was that sort of thing common, or were these most likely local eccentricities? Has anything been written about this?
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