The city of Charlotte is just one of the cities working to undo the damage from urban renewal projects of the 1960s and 70s.
"More than 30 years after a black section of town was bulldozed and thousands of people were evicted in the name of urban renewal, Charlotte wants to undo the damage and put life back into the neighborhood. Civic leaders are drawing up a blueprint for a long-range effort to bring back walkable streets, stores and affordable apartments to the Second Ward, which was called Brooklyn and was the very heart of black Charlotte before it was razed in the 1960s in favor of bland government offices and a little-used park."..."Other cities that undertook sweeping urban-renewal projects in the 1960s and '70s -- among them, Baltimore, Cleveland and New Haven, Conn. -- have also recognized the damage done and attempted to reverse it."
Thanks to Christian Peralta
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