Q2: What were the policy methods and goals of city officials in addressing urban planning issues?
Note: each supporting question is designed to take up roughly one 50-minute class period, but feel free to add more time if needed and available.
Students will examine the planning documents for the city of Detroit’s 1962 Master Plan regarding urban development. The 1962 plan ultimately used the same data students examined in supporting question 1 to create several Urban Renewal initiatives aimed at removing blight from the city of Detroit and creating a model of urban redevelopment that could be followed in other cities across the United States. Students will examine and evaluate several proposals and plans for development with emphasis on the problem the proposal seeks to address, the methods the city planned to enact to address those problems, and students’ evaluation of the effectiveness or community impact of the city’s plan.
The formative task asks students to compare and contrast the city’s plans for urban renewal with the problems and concerns identified in the previous lesson, with emphasis put on students evaluating whether in their views the proposals adequately address the issues of blight identified in the previous lesson, whether the proposals adequately address community concerns on city practices surrounding urban renewal in the previous lesson, and their predictions on what challenges and successes the urban renewal plans might face or achieve.
Teachers may implement this task through use of small group jigsaw activities in which groups of students do a deep dive on one or two specific documents, analyzing them for the above, and creating an evaluation response as a group of the plans.
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Detroit Master Plan Trafficways planning map
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Map showing existing and future expressways, early 1950s
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History
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Geography
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map
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"Blighted Area Rehabilitation" excerpt
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An excepted passage from "Michigan Compiled Laws" 125.75a, outlining rules for declaring land a part of an urban renewal project
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State of Michigan
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Text
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UR1602_002_056
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English
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Laws governing the definition of urban blight, urban renewal
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Redevelopment Survey Page 11
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A portion of the West Side Industrial Redevelopment Survey discussing the amount of land to be redeveloped and why
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UR001602_002_044e
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English
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urban renewal, Yorktown
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