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Urban Villagers by Herbert J Gans

Boston's West End is the most well documented neighborhood destroyed by urban "renewal," made famous initially by Herbert Gans's book, The Urban Villagers, 1962. Although approximately 63 percent of the families displaced by urban renewal were African-American or Hispanic, this Boston community was mainly inhabited by working class Italians. It was a little piece of Italy, with narrow winding streets alive with urban social life. Too crowded and unAmerican for the middle class tastes of City planners, it fell to the bulldozer in 1959 and was replaced by high rise, expensive apartment buildings.

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It is difficult for me to isolate the impact of *URBAN VILLAGERS*. In

my experience it was but one contribution to growing criticism of urban

renewal in the early 1960s and, with that, the physical orientation of


coordinate the urban interstate system with urban renewal; elsewhere

the field of planning. (Jay Stein's *Classic Readings in Urban

Professor of Urban Affairs and Geography

'63 and Martin Anderson weighed in from the right in '64 with *The Federal



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