The Kennedy administration's new housing and urban renewal proposals, particularly their effect on the Federal Housing Administration, came under fire in Dallas last week.

They worked toward legislation for improved working conditions and urban housing.

Swedish public housing models were planned by the government in a similar fashion as urban planning.

The rise in the nation's population generated a corresponding rise in the demand for schools, health facilities, and urban housing.

For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

After World War II, Le Corbusier attempted to realize his urban planning schemes on a small scale by constructing a series of " unités " ( the housing block unit of the Radiant City ) around France.

In declining urban areas ( like Kingston Road in Scarborough, Ontario ), the remaining low-end motels from the two-lane highway era are often seen as seedy places for the homeless, prostitution and drugs as vacant rooms in now-bypassed areas are often rented by social-service agencies to house refugees, abuse victims and families awaiting social housing.

In the 1970s, squatting in West German cities led to " a self-confident urban counterculture with its own infrastructure of newspapers, self-managed collectives and housing cooperatives, feminist groups, and so on, which was prepared to intervene in local and broader politics ".

Influenced by the British Levellers, the movement's popularity rose again during the 1990s, once more due to a housing crisis, this time related to the 1992 Summer Olympics and the concomitant urban regeneration.

The area north of the Highway # 1 from the South Central Peninsula is called the North End ; both areas being predominantly urban residential older housing which is undergoing gentrification.

In determining which areas are considered " urban " and which are " suburban ", the national statistical agency, Statistics Canada, has examined a number of potential methods for drawing the distinction, including municipal boundaries, age of the housing stock, distance from city hall or the central business district, and housing ( but not population ) density.

It considers the last two, distance from center and housing density, the best measures of suburban or urban identity.

Suburbs are defined as primarily single-family housing located at distance from the center of the city, while urban areas are primarily multi-family buildings near the center.

Upon assuming power, the FSLNs political platform included the following: nationalization of property owned by the Somozas and their supporters ; land reform ; improved rural and urban working conditions ; free unionization for all workers, both urban and rural ; price fixing for commodities of basic necessity ; improved public services, housing conditions, education ; abolition of torture, political assassination and the death penalty ; protection of democratic liberties ; equality for women ; non-aligned foreign policy ; formation of a " popular army " under the leadership of the FSLN and Humberto Ortega.

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Other characteristic kinds of urban areas are the historic outskirts of the city, and the former suburbs with scattered housing.

Other issues that generate strong debate among urban designers are tensions between peripheral growth, housing density and new settlements.

Starting in the 1990s, many of the central urban areas in North America have been experiencing a reversal of the urban decay, with rising real estate values, smarter development, demolition of obsolete social housing and a wider variety of housing choices.

Such a tactic includes adopting redevelopment strategies and zoning policies that channel housing and job growth into urban centers and neighborhood business districts, to create compact, walkable, and bike-and transit-friendly hubs.

The corridor-and its lateral branches within each city-would enable the new state to accommodate a fast-growing population by expanding urban neighborhoods and housing stock in a coherent and sustainable manner.

Altogether, these policies provided public-sector housing with its biggest ever boost up until that point, while low-wage earners particularly benefited from these developments.

LDDC was controversial-it was accused of favouring elitist luxury developments rather than affordable housing, and it was unpopular with the local communities, who felt that their needs were not being addressed.

The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s saw large-scale housing developments in the districts of Woensel-Zuid and Woensel-Noord, making Eindhoven the fifth-largest city in the Netherlands.

The large-scale housing developments of the 20th century saw residential areas being built on former agricultural lands and woods, former heaths that had been turned into cultivable lands in the 19th century.

The industrial developments, while they brought work and wealth, were so rapid that housing, town-planning, and provision for public health did not keep pace with them, and for a time living conditions in some of the towns and cities were notoriously bad, with overcrowding, high infant mortality, and growing rates of tuberculosis.

Outside of his film work, Brando appeared before the California Assembly in support of a fair housing law and personally joined picket lines in demonstrations protesting discrimination in housing developments.

Notable works of this time period include public buildings such as the Royal Swedish Opera and private developments such as the luxury housing developments on Strandvägen.

There are often high-or mid-rise developments interspersed with low-rise housing tracts.

However, other new towns also contain private housing estates and low density developments for the upper classes.

Unemployment was relatively low during this period and the standard of living continued to rise with more new private and council housing developments taking place and the number of slum properties diminishing.

In the United Arab Emirates, Federal Act No. 1 of 1976 establishes the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation as the sole telephone and telecommunications provider for the United Arab Emirates, freezones and modern housing developments are exempt from this and utilise a separate telecommunications company called du.

The economic developments in the latter third of the decade were dominated by a worldwide economic downturn, which started with the crisis in housing and credit in the United States in late 2007, and led to the bankruptcy of major banks and other financial institutions.

The London Sustainable Development Commission has calculated that for housing to meet the 60 % target, all new developments would have to be constructed to be carbon-neutral with immediate effect ( using zero energy building techniques ), in addition to cutting energy used in existing housing by 40 %.

The University purchased an additional in 1964 for housing and commercial developments.

After the War, several further large housing developments arose to take large numbers of people migrating from war-damaged London.

Boroughs such as Kanaleneiland, Overvecht and Hoograven consist primarily of high-rise housing developments, and are known for relatively high poverty and crime rate.

Although less visible level to the modern observer, ancient Romans developments in housing and public hygiene are impressive, especially given their day and age.

Declining wharfage trade, light industry and factories have given way to residential development, shops, restaurants, galleries, bars and most notably major office developments housing international headquarters of accountancy, legal and other professional services consultances, most notably along London Bridge City and More London between Tooley Street and the riverside.

The Borough is generally an area of mixed development, with council estates, major office developments, social housing and high value residential gated communities side by side with each other.

Southampton contains primarily single family housing developments and condominiums, most of which were built between 1970 and 2000.

In the 1960s Citrus County began to develop and housing developments such as Beverly Hills started to dominate the county.

In 1941, the Chicago Housing Authority began erecting massive public housing developments in the area.