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This 4-page paper focuses on the development struggles facing Boston's West End and Chinatown. Much of the paper focuses on the inequalities facing both of these areas, and how consumers banded together to try to successfully fight against proposed changes to their neighborhoods. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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headlines in local papers, hurt residents and in the long run, and up costing taxpayers a great deal of money. In this paper, we will examine two such instances of
"urban planning" gone awry. These two examples, both located in the Boston, MA area, deal with the West End and Chinatown.
During the mid-1980s, Bostons West End saw the groundbreaking for real estate project called Lowell Square, a 183-unit, mixed-income apartment complex (Dreier and Gendron, 1995). But this particular groundbreaking
was unusual because it signified the mix-up concerning the West End pretty much since the 1950s. This story highlighted the worst type of urban renewal -- that using the wrecking
ball to destroy low-income communities to replace them with upper-class homes for the wealthy (Dreier and Gendron, 1995). During that time, the
city leaders and power brokers decided to destroy the neighborhood as part of a federally funded urban renewal program (Dreier and Gendron, 1995). While in theory of this sounded like
a good idea, approximately 7000 residents have lost their homes in the process (Dreier and Gendron, 1995). Another problem was the nature of the neighborhood -- far from being the
so-called blighted slum that the city claimed it was, the area was actually described as the "lively, working-class community of three- to five-story apartment houses" (Dreier and Gendron, 1995, p.
15). The West End of the 1960s consisted of a mix of immigrant groups and ethnic minorities whose lives were focused on families, houses of worship, schools and small shops
(Dreier and Gendron, 1995). When Bostons business leaders, government officials, media members and the Catholic archdiocese believed that the entire citys declining
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