How Eminent Domain Destroys Neighborhoods

... Here in Mesa, AZ we have a history of the use of this: Site 17 is just one (still an empty vacant eyesore) and Temple Court on Hibbert Street that had a happy outcome as the Mesa ArtSpace Lofts.
Note: the word BLIGHT and the explanation > that resonates today with Mesa's RDAs and the use of GPLETS
Published on Aug 23, 2019
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Resources:
A. Pritchett, W. E. (2003). The public menace of blight: Urban renewal and the private uses of eminent domain. Yale Law Policy Review, 21(1), 1-52.

B. Dreier, Peter, "Bonston's West End: 35 years after the bulldozer" (1995). UEP Faculty & UEPI Staff Scholarship. https://scholar.oxy.edu/uep_faculty/682

C. Frieden, B. J., & Sagalyn, L. B. (1991). Downtown, inc: How America rebuilds cities. MIT press.

D. Marc Fried & Peggy Gleicher (1961) Some Sources of Residential Satisfaction in an Urban Slum, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 27:4, 305-315, DOI: 10.1080/01944366108978363