Urban renewal wiped blocks of Roanoke's black neighborhoods from the map and divided Gainsboro -- one of the city's oldest sections -- into a fractured patchwork of houses, industrial lots and ...

Howard Husock Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically A new exhibit brings to life a lost black neighborhood and implicitly criticizes the misbegotten policies that destroyed it.

Throughout history, urban renewal in Roanoke, in many cases, meant splintering the Black community.

A crucial way to understand systemic racism and its effects on generations is by taking a look at discriminatory housing practices, urban renewal and redlining.

Included in those recommendations is a draft apology for the decades-long detriments that urban renewal policies had on city residents, especially in Black neighborhoods.

Urban Renewal-related projects include the 581 Interstate, the Civic Center, and the Coca-Cola plant. “And that’s why Gainsboro itself is an Intra-Urban Heat Island.

In Atlanta, urban renewal projects in redlined neighborhoods (red areas on the map) displaced mostly non-white residents (purple bars in the chart on the right).

Many Roanoke residents are still haunted by their memories of urban renewal.

'Renewing Inequality' maps the demographic profiles and footprints of thousands of urban renewal projects between 1950 and 1966, a project developed by the University of Richmond’s Digital ...

Dressed in a suit with a smile from ear to ear for his mug shot, former Urban Renewal Executive Director Maurice Taggart was briefly in custody at the Jefferson County jail Friday morning after an ...

Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished ...