Liberal ends through illiberal means race, urban renewal, and community in the Eastwick section of Philadelphia, 1949-1990

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 547-583

  McKee, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; HOUSING PROVISION; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034921295     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009614420102700501     Document Type: Article

References (132)

1. Eastwick: Project to be started next summer; Cost Up $23 million
2. U.S. adds $16 million to its grant for eastwick to correct and error
3. Eastwick as it was
4. Large firms and industrial restructuring: The Philadelphia region, 1900-1980
5. Triester lists eastwick needs; Says improvements would boost growth
6. Uprooting a community: The people and problems of Eastwick
7. The dimensions of residential segregation
8. Eastwick: Battle of two dreams
9. Was the great society a lost opportunity?
10. Renaissancemanship
11. Requiem for a renaissance
12. Eastwick area envisioned as home district: Section is largest slated for clearance with federal funds
13. Pipeline is ready to move silt tract to eastwick project
14. Inside Philadelphia: A new kind of new town
15. Face lifting outlined for eastwick
16. Clients for housing: The low-income tenant-does he want supertenements?
17. Referred to the eastwick project as a"workingman's town"
18. Integration of families in Eastwick is biggest problem, report says
19. Philadelphia's new problem
20. Segregation: Inside story of Philadelphia's racial housing problem as told by the Mayor
21. Time magazine says mayor favors housing segregation: Not true, says Dilworth
22. Mayor Dilworth claims price range will bar Negroes from buying property in Eastwick
23. Owners fight eastwick plan for dream city: Court plea looms on evictions for 500 million project
24. Clearview fights to project homes in Eastwick project
25. Eastwick named after train builder
26. Average housewife's view of eastwick
27. Elmwood is my beat
28. Eastwick-Total rebuilding
29. $100,687,700 eastwick plan finally introduced in council (clipping)
30. Threaten 'sit-down' strike to bar redevelopment of Eastwick area
31. The why of eastwick: Individual objections vs. overall progress
32. Red influence in eastwick plan charges by foes
33. Negros, whites fighting together: Blast eastwick redevelopment; Angry homeowners charge program will result in segregated housing
34. Eastwick organization vows intent to hold out against redevelopment
35. Half of Elmwood's churches doomed to destruction by city; Citizens fight against plan to destroy houses of worship
36. Proposed New Eastwick homes not for low salaried workers;$80 to $100 salary is needed, housing coordinator intimates
37. Angry Elmwood citizens blast 'for rich only housing'; Countless aged workers, low income earners to lose homes
38. Elmwoodites doubt being fully paid for home improvements; Majority of 2500 families skeptical of redevelopment
39. Levittown builder reportedly trying to take over; residents furious as Levitt Seeks City contract to build
40. Redevelopment runs into problems at eastwick
41. Council may kill proposed Eastwick redevelopment; 7,000 write cards to council urging 'save our homes'
42. From industrial to corporate city: The role of urban renewal
43. 1000 residents defy Eastwick plan at hearing
44. Too old to start Over-Where, from Eastwick?
45. Redevelopers for Eastwick are chosen; Reynolds-Berger combine approved in $250 million job
46. The Berger boys land a whopper: The contract for developing $450 million community from marsh-lands went to a pair of go-getters
47. Philadelphia developers push their 'city within a city'
48. The industrial corporation in urban renewal
49. Eastwick more promises than progress in first years
50. The new eastwick: Growth slow; Integration hurst sales
51. Planes no joke to Eastwick residents [letter to editor]
52. Odors fill 2 eastwick homes built on gas-emitting dump
53. Oversold and underbuilt: Whatever happened to Eastwick?
54. Protestors ask 'community control' of eastwick center
55. Methodist unit balks on eastwick center plan
56. Future of stage III is pondered By PAC
57. A history of development: From farmland to urban sprawl
58. To build 1000th home in year; 8000 to go
59. High eastwick costs cited in move to N.J
60. Simmons Co. plans building in Eastwick
61. Aviation and airports: The impact on the economic and geographic structure of american cities, 1940s-1980s
62. $164,000 profit on eastwick site cancelled
63. Court hears site buyer in eastwick land deal
64. Wooton international real estate consultants
65. Eastwick: A $200-million renewal dream: Cooperation brings project 'a long way'
66. Septa system: You can't find it in Eastwick
67. PAC job bank finds employment for area jobless
68. Unserved: No curbs, no sidewalks, no sewers
69. Civic truth [letter to editor]
70. Youth Tragedy Sparks PAC Response, Action
71. South-west Phila. residents
72. Not for sale: Real estate solicitation raising fears in 2 neighborhoods
73. Color-blind, and happy: In Eastwick black, white amity rules
74. Dynamic models of segregation