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Urban Villagers by Herbert J Gans
Title: Urban Villagers by Herbert J Gans
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 675 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Urban Villagers by Herbert J Gans
Urban Renewal in Boston
the West End and Government Center
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 …showed first 75 words of 675 total…
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to other areas. To those of us working in Massachusetts who knew the
history of the BRA and the North End, it was a particularly scathing
critique.
I hope this helps. I would be very interested in what you find because
I think the *Urban Villagers* has become as important for its symbolism
as for its insights into community.
David L. Ames
Professor of Urban Affairs and Geography
University of Delaware
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