The Possibility of a Housing Authority: Elite Negotiations and the Establishment of an Urban Renewal Relocation Plan in Fargo, North Dakota

This study uses urban regime theory to understand the events surrounding Fargo urban renewal during the 1950s. Specifically, it focuses upon the struggle between realtors, banking officers, government officials, and other local actors, as they established a plan for relocating Fargo residents displa...

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Published in:Journal of planning history 2014-11, Vol.13 (4), p.341-356
Main Author: Bauroth, Nicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Banking
Elite
Housing
Housing authorities
Negotiation
North Dakota
Redevelopment, Urban
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Summary:This study uses urban regime theory to understand the events surrounding Fargo urban renewal during the 1950s. Specifically, it focuses upon the struggle between realtors, banking officers, government officials, and other local actors, as they established a plan for relocating Fargo residents displaced by urban renewal. With a downtown Civic Center as their ultimate goal, coalition partners set aside their differences and produced an unprecedented plan: to avoid any reliance on public housing, relocation would be handled via the private sector, specifically the Fargo Board of Realtors. The study demonstrates that this relocation plan and its subsequent revisions reflected the interests of the individual regime members.
ISSN:1538-5132
1552-6585
DOI:10.1177/1538513213507864