Talk:Urban renewal

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"is a movement in urban planning that reached its peak in the United States from the late 1940s through the early 1970s." Did it? It seems that all western developed nations have done this to some degree, in many european states (Fr for example) it verges on obsession! Bjrobinson 03:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

It should say "...that in the United States reached its peak from the late 1940s ..." -- Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 03:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

That makes alot more sense, i mis-read. Thanks. Bjrobinson 23:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I removed the {{fact}} from Boston's West End comment. Here's one reference, a 2000 Boston Globe article by Kathleen Howley Wake 22:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Poor article 2 Poor article 3 Some good sources 4 Attempting a restructure

[edit] Poor article

This record doesn't define urban renewal in a straightforward way in the first three paragraphs. It should. It goes right into the impact of it and the fact that it's contraversial without defining it. It appears to assume that the reader already knows what urban renewal is. I didn't, and I had to move on to another source. Please consider revising, someone. (From 06:08, June 12, 2006 67.188.87.180).

[edit] Poor article

A agree that this is a very poor article, there is little or no definition and the article focuses solely on the USA in far too much detail. I think this article should be completely re-written with a better explanation and a wider geographical focus. --Chr1sday87 16:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some good sources

It's still happening on a massive scale:

Detroit Urban Renewal Without the Renewal New York Times by JODI WILGOREN. July 7, 2002 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/712122/posts —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Futurebird (talk • contribs) 22:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Attempting a restructure

I may have a go at a restructure and rewrite here. Grateful for any views as this article seems to have languished for a bit. Idea would be to move this article initially to urban renewal in the United States and then create a generic core article possibly called urban renewal. This would be linked out from urban planning and provide some links to country specific articles

I will probably then do a UK page in outline

Any views before I have a go

Uneirlys 21:08, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we might need to split the topics. In the US it is a much hated policy, in the UK it seemed to have fewer problems. That is one of the things that makes this article confusing. We could have:

• Urban renewal (United States)
• Urban renewal (United Kingdom)

and make this the disambig page. what do you think? futurebird 22:00, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I am fairly new here and haven't quite got the hang of the disambiguation pages - I had assumed that they were for topics that were fairly common but could have different meaning. This appears to be rather more like a simple category division. How about - as the current page says - urban renewal for the US and urban regeneration for the UK with a cross reference in the first para

Uneirlys 22:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

first cut of a skeleton for a Uk page is on a sandbox in my user page Uneirlys 22:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)