Planning Notes (City of Greensboro)
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Planning notes [Number 5, 24 September 1959]
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Report form Greensboro Department of Planning highlighted by the article, "Greensboro's Photo Album." This writing describes the history of the use of high quality photographs by the Planning and Engineering Departments of Greensboro for surveying and land development. Includes a full page aerial photo view of Greensboro from 1959 and notes of new or upcoming reports on the city of Greensboro.
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Planning notes [Number 8, 15 April 1960]
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Report from the Greensboro Department of Planning highlighted by an article titled " Urban Renewal is People" which is actually a speech previously given by Robert E. Barkley. It dicusses various aspects of urban renewal and concludes with the essential elements of city revitalization. There is also a short redevelopment progress report of Cumberland and the rights of the Redevelopment Commission being contested. There is also statistical data on Cumberland and Warnersville.
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Planning notes [Number 7, 23 March 1960]
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Report of the development and necessity of Greensboro's municipal services. Three area of municipal services mentioned are physical comforts like the police department, cultural services like the public school system, and transportation services.
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Planning notes [Number 15, 25 August 1961]
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Report from the Greensboro Department of City Planning called, "No Thoroughfare, or How to Close A Street" by W. G. Dodgson, the city planner. The writing details the issues with creating new streets, dedicating names of these roads and issue that arise from ones that are not longer used by the general public. Most of text uses a dialogue between an attorney and a client explains these issues.
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Planning notes [Number 17, 22 September 1961]
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This report by the Redevelopment Commission of Greensboro describes the population and personal income growth trends in Guilford County and the surrounding areas. This directly impacts downtown Greensboro and its role as a primary trade area.
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Planning notes [Number 24, 8 October 1962]
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Report from the Greensboro Department of City Planning prepared by George C. Crita titled, "Growth in Gate City." Details of the increase of land used in Greensboro for transportation, residence and business from 1958 to 1961 are highlights of this report.
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Planning notes [Number 25, 1 March 1963]
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This report from the Greensboro Department of Planning includes three articles. The first article entitled, "The Retailer's Role in Downtown Revitalization" discusses the importance of the downtown area is to commerce and how businesses should be actively engage in the revitalization process. The second article entitled "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" is an editorial on book about city planning. The third article entitled "Social Responsibilities of the Business Community" is another editorial about the business community's commitment it has to the city.
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Planning notes [Number 27, 10 July 1963]
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This report from the Greensboro Department of Planning includes two articles. The first is "Downtown Renewal Forum No. 1" and discusses the renewal of downtown areas including their own area of Hartford. The second article, "Downtown Renewal Forum No. 2", discusses the renewal of downtown Indianapolis and how is it being accomplished without federal funding. ()
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Planning notes [Number 34A, 27 January 1964]
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This report is primarily a 3 page article on the history behind the names of Greensboro's most famous streets. The last page has an advertised request for historical images of Downtown Greensboro.
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Planning notes [Number 39, 30 June 1964]
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Report featuring a history of the Greensboro Department of Planning with details about the current board members. Also included are charts of land zone uses and of zoning requests made to the planning board and the city council.
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Planning notes [Number 41, 18 September 1964]
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Report from the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce called, "A Promising Opportunity For Downtown Greensboro" which was presented by McNeil Smith to the Greensboro City Council of June 18, 1964. This was the concluding report from years of assessing downtown Greensboro.
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Planning notes [Number 42, 25 September 1964]
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A report of the research of economical benefits and growth of commercial land use in Greensboro by Charles Hayes. Includes charts and maps which show the commercial lands of the city and locations of shoppings centers and strips.
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