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Identifier	Thesis 2054
Author	Morisse-Corsetti, Daniel R.
Title	At the doorstep of the model city : New Haven, urban renewal and the Oak Street Project
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The middle decades of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented amount of resources directed at rescuing and redeveloping blighted urban areas in the United States. Across the country, federal dollars, in accordance with the Federal Housing Act of 1949, were being granted and loaned to municipal governments as a means of supplementing state funding and municipal oversights of major redevelopment projects. The City of New Haven was a national leader in this area. Between 1956 and 1969, New Haven would see acres upon acres of blighted urban areas cleared, its citizens removed from their homes and relocated to reconstructed parts of the city, and new buildings and traffic pattern built to replace them. Richard C. Lee, Mayor of the City of New Haven from 1954 – 1969, considered Urban Renewal to be the central cause of his administration, and pursued it in ways that had been previously unheard of. The first urban renewal project, Oak Street, would see the clearance of some 40 acres of slum area, to be replaced with a mile-long, four lane connector highway that would link the central business district of New Haven with brand new interstates 91 and 95. The Oak Street Connector would provide easy access into the center of the city, and would draw new businesses into what was once considered to be the worst slum in Connecticut. The purpose of this paper is to study the history of the Oak Street project in depth, with a focus on the construction of the Connector, as a means of developing enduring understandings of the advantages and disadvantages of urban renewal. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, this study will offer an insight into what was a moderately successful urban renewal project, in the hope of providing context for those who would consider restoring such vast resources into urban areas
Subject	Urban renewal -- Connecticut -- New Haven New Haven (Conn.)
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Glaser, Leah S
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	526418699
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