A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
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Yale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projectre Between Two Somewheres: The Church Street South Project and Urban Renewal in New HavenEmily DominskiYalt UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/mssa collections& Part of the Political History Commons, United States History Commons, and the Urban, Commun A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projectity and Regional Planning CommonsRecommended CitationDominskl, Emily, "A Nowhere Between Tw Somewheres: The Church Street South Project and Ulban ReneA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
wal in New Haven' (2012). MSSA Kaplan Pnzejor UscafMSSA Caữettiom.https://eltechoIar.Ubrary.yale.edU/imsa_coUectlons/7Hu* Article 1* brought to you foYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project MSSA Kaplan I'rac for LSe of MSSACollection* by an authoriaed administrator of EliSchoter - A Digital Platform forScholarly lYlbliihingat Yale. For more information plca*e contact eliwholar^yalr.edu.Yale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project Use of MSSA CollectionsSenior Essay PrizesA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres: The Church Street South Project and Urban Renewal in New HavenEmily DominA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
ski /Follow this and additional works at: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/mssa_collectionsThis Article IS brought to you for free and open access bYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project Vse of MSSA Collections by an authorized administrator of HiScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yak. For more information, pkase contact michacỉdulaụpyaleedci.A Nowhere Between Two Soinewheres:The Church Street South Project and Urban Renewal in New HavenEmily DominskiSenior Es A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South ProjectsaySpring 2012Advisor: Elihu RubinPart I. Introduction“It is altogether too easy to forget the New Haven of a decade ago” New Haven's Mayor Richard c.A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
Lee began as he addressed the members of his Citizens Action Commission in 1965. “Neither our eyes, nor our memories are any longer jolted by the visYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projecto congested that normal business was impossible. Most business was conducted from the tailgates of trucks. This was a truck market in every sense of the word, with little tax return to the City and few permanent jobs. The buildings that were used were obsolete and inefficient, relics of a bygone age A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project. Streets were too often littered with refuse and filth and infested with rats and vermin. This was the sight that greeted visitors to New Haven as thA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
ey left the railroad station. One can hardly imagine a less impressive entrance to a city." Lee had come before the CAC. a group of New Haven's busineYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projecthowplace of twentieth century architecture.”1With these evocative words. Mayor Lee introduced the Church Street South housing project to the business leaders of New Haven. Connecticut. By emphasizing the blight of the removed market and potential of the new project. Lee portrayed the benefits of “sl A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projectum clearance”: the city could clear the land that was a detriment to the city while building a new. prestigious development. He painted the housing deA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
velopment as not only an architectural credit for New Haven, but an economic boom as well. Lee's reference to the tax-paying properties of the land, tYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projecth to be a luxury-housing complex to be designed by world-renowned architect, Mies van der Rohe. As built, however. Church Street South was a very different development: a low-rise. Village-Style, apartment complex for low-income residents. In this essay I discuss the evolution of the Church Street1 A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South ProjectRemarks of Mayor Richard C. Lee at Citizens Action Commission Annual Meeting. Apnl. 24.1965. Series will: Piojects. New Haven Redevelopment Agency RecA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
ords. Group IS 14. Box 396: Planning and Plan Amendments. Manuscripts and Archives. Yale University, New Haven.1South territory and changing land usesYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projectsed Church Street South was part of a larger urban renewal project in New Haven: the Church Street Project. Unlike the previous Oak Street Connector project, an urban highway project that linked New Haven to the emerging system of interstate highways, or the contemporaneous Wooster Square Neighborho A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projectod rehabilitation project, the Church Street Project, first introduced in 1955. was almost entirely aimed at rebuilding the commercial core of the citA Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Project
y, as opposed to improving New Haven’s housing stock. The Church Street Project had to central objectives: increasing the tax base and reversing the dYale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A Nowher A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres- The Church Street South Projectail district in New Haven as the means to restore commercial success to the city.Yale UniversityEliScholar - A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at YaleMSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA CollectionsLibrary Prizes2012A NowherGọi ngay
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