
Behind the News: A Slow Civil War w/ Jeff Sharlet
Jacobin Radio
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The History of Nonprofit Organizations and Cities
In the late 1950s early 1960s urban renewal was gaining a reputation rightfully so as quote Negro removal it was seen as incredibly top down process. In Boston Ed Loge becomes renewals are in 1960 1961 the cabin working in New Haven. He gets recruited to Boston by Mayor John Collins who'd recently been elected in 1960 and he'd run on sort of both an anti-renewal platform saying that planning with the people was going to be his mantra.
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