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Urban Renewal in Southwest DC

A massive renewal project in the 1950s transformed Southwest D.C. But what was lost?

02/22/2021

If You Lived Here

Urban Renewal in Southwest DC

Clip: Season 1 Episode 5 | 2m 16sVideo has Closed Captions

A massive renewal project in the 1950s transformed Southwest D.C. But what was lost?

Author and historian Marjorie Lightman discusses how the “original sin” of the massive federal renewal project in the 1950s totally transformed Southwest D.C.

02/22/2021

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