(NEWARK, NEW JERSEY--URBAN RENEWAL) Binder with 35 photographs documenting the planned Hill Street Urban Renewal Project in Newark. The photographs depict gritty urban streets with stores promoting "everything must go sales," industrial buildings, and small factories and businesses, in addition to cranes razing historic brick structures, large empty lots, and derelict edifices. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19x24.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, with the hand stamp of a local photographer Ace Alagna Photos, on verso. Large 4to, multi-ring binder, leatherette, covers chipped, with areas of loss. 1962-63
Long before gentrification entered popular parlance, "urban renewal" was introduced to describe large-scale developments intended to revitalize languishing cities. The 1960s was the heyday of urban renewal. In many instances do-good aspirations were undermined by political graft, and the result was the displacement of low- and moderate-income families and more blight.
