Urban Renewal or Urban Removal: A Case Study from Lockport, NY, 1954-1974

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Urban Renewal in Lockport, NY, Part 1: Setting the Stage, 1949 - 1961

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.12.9-12
Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Eco.1.9-12
Analyze how incentives influence choices that may result in policies with a range of costs and benefits for different groups.
D2.Geo.5.9-12
Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.His.1.9-12
Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Urban Renewal in Lockport NY, Part 2: Action and Reaction, 1962 - 1974

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.12.9-12
Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Eco.8.9-12
Describe the possible consequences, both intended and unintended, of government policies to improve market outcomes.
D2.Geo.5.9-12
Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.His.1.9-12
Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Urban Renewal: Process and Promises

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.12.9-12
Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Eco.8.9-12
Describe the possible consequences, both intended and unintended, of government policies to improve market outcomes.
D2.Geo.5.9-12
Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.His.5.9-12
Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people's perspectives.

Urban Renewal: Demolition and Development

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.12.9-12
Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Civ.14.9-12
Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.
D2.Eco.8.9-12
Describe the possible consequences, both intended and unintended, of government policies to improve market outcomes.
D2.Geo.8.9-12
Evaluate the impact of economic activities and political decisions on spatial patterns within and among urban, suburban, and rural regions.
D2.His.2.9-12
Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.

Before and After: The Effects of Post-Urban Renewal on Lockport, NY

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
D2.Civ.13.9-12
Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes, and related consequences.
D2.Eco.2.9-12
Use marginal benefits and marginal costs to construct an argument for or against an approach or solution to an economic issue.
D2.Geo.10.9-12
Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.
D2.Geo.5.9-12
Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.His.1.9-12
Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.
D2.His.2.9-12
Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
D2.His.5.9-12
Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people's perspectives.
D2.His.7.9-12
Explain how the perspectives of people in the present shape interpretations of the past.