ABSTRACT
In the 1945-60 period, new patterns for restructuring urban phenomena were put in place, and the first round of building got under way. The following 1960-68 period saw incredible amounts of new building all over the land: new interstate and suburban highway construction was, perhaps, the most visible form, with great clearances for urban renewal projects. The subject of social housing occupied a great deal of attention in the 1950s. President John F. Kennedy, while not acceding to the urban mayors' request that he give the needs of the cities top priority, was enthusiastic about housing and urban development legislation. Selection of representative items, begins with a modest, understandably conservative, statement of national goals for housing and urban development handed to the incoming Kennedy Democrats by the retiring Eisenhower Republicans. The two extraordinarily comprehensive, erudite, and readable government reports were delivered just as the president Johnson administration was packing up and the Richard Nixon team was preparing to reign.
