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Historic Preservation History

I. The Preservation Era Arrives, Finally, In Memphis

Mark Fleischer October 3, 2019 No Comments Blight Federal Highway Funds Great Depression Historic Preservation Interstate Highway Act of 1956 Memphis Fights Blight Memphis Housing Authority Memphis Steam Laundry National Historic Preservation Act Preservation Progressive Era Slum Clearance Suburbs The Housing Act of 1954 Union Station Urban Renewal Vieux Carre Commission White Flight

Memphis Historic Preservation Part I: The Slums & White Flight By Mark Fleischer “We’re late. There’s not much left to save. There has been a…

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Opinion

Welcome to The Equitable Issue

Mark Fleischer April 6, 2019 No Comments Bathgate Avenue Beale Street Crotona Park East 175th Street East Tremont Federal Highway Funds Manhattan Mindy Fullilove Robert Moses Root Shock Slum Clearance The Bronx Third Avenue El Urban Renewal Vance-Pontotoc

“You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in…

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