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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 3/6/2008 - 3:24pm
Seeing these photos, from this now extinct neighborhood, really underscores that fact that Durham was really like so many other towns in North Carolina. This type of architecture is still very prevalent in the eastern part of our state, towns without huge "urban renewal" budgets didn't remove all their ecletic housing. Ironically its neighborhoods like this one that are now driving urban restoration and are considered jewels in other urban areas. These losses of middle income sturdy housing stock are very sad, especially when one thinks about what replaced them and where the residents were forced to move. Alas!
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Submitted by MK (not verified) on Sun, 3/9/2008 - 11:45am
Somehow replacing a neighborhood of houses that could have been restored with a huge car dealership in the middle of town does not seem like a worthy example of urban renewal.
Submitted by Gary (not verified) on Sun, 3/9/2008 - 12:14pm
MK
Indeed. And if you can find a worthy example of urban renewal perpetrated by the Urban Renewal program, I'd be surprised.
GK
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