The Urban Land Institute ( ULI ) awarded the Battery Park City Master Plan its 2010 Heritage Award, for having " facilitated the private development of 9. 3 million square feet of commercial space, 7. 2 million square feet of residential space, and nearly 36 acres of open space in lower Manhattan, becoming a model for successful large-scale planning efforts and marking a positive shift away from the urban renewal mindset of the time.

A New Theory of Urban Design ( 1987 ) coincided with a renewal of interest in urbanism among architects, but stood apart from most other expressions of this by assuming a distinctly anti-masterplanning stance.

* Urban regeneration, another term for urban renewal

Urban planning can include urban renewal, by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from decline.

Urban renewal projects in the 1970s, including the Pei Plan, removed many older historic structures but failed to spark much new development, leaving the city dotted with vacant lots used for parking.

* Urban renewal

A factor in the increase in urban poor along Colfax has been linked to Denver Urban Renewal Authority's plans for urban renewal in Downtown Denver.

Urban renewal projects in the 1950s and 1960s cleared entire blocks of housing in the Center City and East Side areas.

Urban renewal efforts in the 1970s transformed downtown Lawton.

The federal Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) department's 1993 HOPE VI program addressed concerns of distressed properties and blighted superblocks with revitalization and funding projects for the renewal of public housing to decrease its density and allow for tenants with mixed income levels.

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.

Urban renewal areas like Docklands, Southbank, St Kilda Road and Port Melbourne are now predominately apartments.

Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use.

Urban renewal may involve relocation of businesses, the demolition of structures, the relocation of people, and the use of eminent domain ( government purchase of property for public purpose ) as a legal instrument to take private property for city-initiated development projects.

Urban renewal has been seen by proponents as an economic engine and a reform mechanism, and by critics as a mechanism for control.

" " Urban renewal " was a phrase popularized with the passage of the 1954 Housing Act, which made these projects more enticing to developers, by among other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages.

Some of the policies around urban renewal began to change under President Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty, and in 1968, the Housing and Urban Development Act and The New Communities Act of 1968 guaranteed private financing for private entrepreneurs to plan and develop new communities.

Urban renewal sometimes lives up to the hopes of its original proponents – it has been assessed by politicians, urban planners, civic leaders, and residents – it has played an undeniably important role.

Urban renewal is usually non-consultative.

Urban renewal continues to evolve as successes and failures are examined and new models of development and redevelopment are tested and implemented.

Urban renewal and gentrification began to take effect in NYC including Crown Heights.

Urban renewal began in earnest 2000, with several independent privately developed areas overseen by VicUrban, an agency of the State government of Victoria.

During the late 1960s / early 1970s, numerous buildings were constructed as part of a major urban renewal project, such as the Pullen Library ( 1966 ), Classroom South ( 1968 ), the expansion of the Pullen Library in 1968, the Arts and Humanities Building ( 1970 ), the ten-story General Classroom Building ( 1971 ), the Sports Arena ( 1973 ), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building ( 1974 ).

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

The tomb is somberly monotone and lacks the polychromatic excitement that detracts from the elegiac mood of Urban VIII's tomb.

Among his most well-known essays from this period are " Urban culture " 1924 ), " Temple baths on Jyväskylä ridge " ( 1925 ), " Abbé Coignard's sermon " ( 1925 ), and " From doorstep to living room " ( 1926 ).

The Council using funding from the Single Regeneration Budget appointed URBED ( Urban, Built, Environment Design ), consultants based in Manchester to help the Council, our partners and the local community develop a new vision for Accrington town centre.

“ Urban Decline and the Withdrawal of New York University from University Heights, The Bronx .” The Bronx County Historical Society Journal XLVI ( Spring / Fall 2009 ): 4-24.

Many historians maintain that the main concern of Pope Urban II, when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople from the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

It was only when Paul Davidson, the owner of a chain of cinemas, brought Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad to Germany from Denmark in 1911, and set up a production company, Projektions-AG " Union " ( PAGU ), for them, that a change-over to renting prints began.

Aside from serving their functional purposes, gas masks are also used as emblems in industrial music, by graffiti taggers because the mask protects them from the graffiti canister's toxic fumes, and by Urban Explorers venturing into environments where hazardous materials, such as asbestos, may be present.

He returned to work for the Florentine government in 1365, undertaking a mission to Pope Urban V. When the papacy returned to Rome from Avignon in 1367, Boccaccio was again sent to Urban, offering congratulations.

Haiti is known to be the first in the Caribbean with a Railway system in the Urban of Port-au-Prince and later a Project that was supposed to run by The Company Mc Donald from Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haitian, and From Port-au-Prince to Les Cayes it did not completed.

However, the scandals of Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce and the neglect of the president were obstacles from the start, and Kemp was unsuccessful at either of his major initiatives: enacting enterprise zones and promoting public housing tenant ownership.

After stepping down from his $ 189, 000 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development job, Kemp personally earned $ 6. 9 million in the next three years, primarily for speaking on behalf of local Republican candidates.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

Dr. Ashkouri has also presented the plan to President Karzai and has received a letter of support from the president and the Minister of Urban Development.

Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).

* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Costello stood for election to the Bray Urban District Council and the Wicklow county council in 1966 and was successful.

He represented New Orleans ' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large from 1966 to 1970 and was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U. S. President Jimmy Carter from 1979 – 1981.

The Allah School in Mecca, previously known as the Street Academy, was founded in 1966 through the Urban League, with the help of the then-current Republican mayor of New York, John Lindsay, and his assistant, Barry Gottehrer.

Sewell first became active in city politics in 1966 when he joined the residents of the Trefann Court Urban Renewal Area in the fight against the expropriation and levelling of the working class and poor neighbourhood.

But the border was moved a couple of miles north in 1966, when Amblecote Urban District ( previously in Staffordshire ) was incorporated into the Borough of Stourbridge.

Bereuter worked as an urban planner with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1965 to 1966.

A twinning arrangement was made in 1966 by Chadderton Urban District Council with Geesthacht, West Germany .< ref >

In 1966 the Urban District merged with that of Aldridge to form the Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District, in accordance with a recommendation of the Local Government Commission for England.

The Detroit People Mover has its origins in 1966, with Congressional creation of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration ( UMTA ) to develop new types of transit.

Sedgley Urban District Council survived until 1966, when the majority of the area was merged into the Dudley County Borough, along with Coseley and Brierley Hill.

Tettenhall was previously an Urban District in its own right, until most areas become part of the Borough of Wolverhampton in 1966, with some areas of the District being placed within the present South Staffordshire district.

It was then part of Brierley Hill Urban District Council and since 1966 has been controlled by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.

1966 saw the core Wenlock parts become part of the Bridgnorth Rural District, with other parts also going to Dawley Urban District and to Wellington Rural District.

Robert Clifton Weaver ( December 29, 1907 – July 17, 1997 ) served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ( also known as HUD ) from 1966 to 1968.

* The Language and Education of the Deaf, Center for Urban Education, 1966

The Coseley Urban District Council Offices were opened in 1897 on the corner of Green Street and School Street, and remained in that building until the dissolution of Coseley Urban District Council in April 1966.

President Lyndon Johnson appointed Ravitch to the United States Commission on Urban Problems in 1966, and he was elected president of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council ( CHPC ) in 1968.

In 1966 he became the first black cabinet member, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson as Secretary of the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Originally part of the ancient manor of Sedgley, from 1894 to 1966 it was part of Coseley Urban District Council until being transferred into the Wolverhampton County Borough as a suburb of Bilston, although a small section of it was transferred into the expanded West Bromwich borough ( which in turn merged with Warley in 1974 to become Sandwell ) which had also taken over the bulk of neighbouring Tipton and Wednesbury.