Arthur M. Louis. Harper's Magazine 250(1496), January 1975, 67-71.
Considers the nation's fifty largest cities in 24 categories. Found that "[Newark] ranked among the worst five cities in no fewer than nineteen of the twenty-four categories, and it was dead last in nine of them. Rutgers-restricted Access
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Banking and Currency. Hearing. September 8, 1972.
"Hearing in Newark, N.J., before the Subcom on Housing on local operation of Federal housing and urban development programs, with emphasis on model cities and public housing programs and FHA operations in the center city." Rutgers-restricted Access
Renewing Newark: the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties
Mark Krasovic. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016.
"The Newark Frontier shows how, during the Great Society, urban liberalism adapted and grew, defining itself less by centralized programs and ideals than by administrative innovation and the small-scale, personal interactions generated by community action programs, investigative commissions, and police-community relations projects." Available?
The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990
Julia Rabig. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016
"Understanding how some individuals and organizations in the complex and vibrant landscape of 1960s activism came to act as fixers illuminates two intertwined developments that shaped twentieth-century US history: the uneven political incorporation of black Americans and the evolution of the urban crisis...To understand why fixers emerged in the late 1960s and what distinguishes them, we must first understand the problems they promised to address, problems that Newark shared with many other cities around the country but that were also exacerbated by New Jersey’s particular history of localism and suburban expansion." Available?
Julia Rabig. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
"This dissertation explores the enduring conflicts over race, federalism, and local self-determination in postwar U.S. cities through the experience of Newark, New Jersey... Newark's residents and their suburban neighbors mounted imaginative challenges to the city's decline, many of which resonated nationally among policymakers and residents of similarly distressed cities." Available?
Alan Drew Cander. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, 2011.
"Using a three-pronged qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews, archival analysis, and site visits, I conducted case studies of four urban redevelopment projects (two in one neighborhood) in Newark, New Jersey spanning a fifty-year period and revealing several overarching themes." Case studies focus on Clinton Hill (1950-1960), the College of Medicine and Dentistry Urban Renewal Project (1964-1969) and the Mulberry Street Revelopment Effort (2002-2007).
"State, Meet the Ghetto: Researching the Great Society in Newark."
Authorized by the 1968 Medical School Agreement, the Relocation Review Board was"the legitimate vehicle for dealing with extraneous problems of relocation with reference to any agency, developer, or private concern that are using federal or state financing...."
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Involuntary Relocation of the Elderly. Hearings. Oct. 26, 1962. Washington, D.C., 1963.
The elderly were among the populations most affected by urban renewal projects.
"Urban Renewal and Civil Rights,"
Stanley B. Winters. Studies on the Left 4(3), Summer 1964, pp. 16-31.
"The involuntary removal of large numbers of Negroes from their homes, businesses, churches and communities through the operations of a joint private and public program makes urban renewal a civil rights problem of enormous magnitude." Available?
Mindy Thompson Fullilove. New Village Press Edition, 2016.
Using the stories of the people who have lived through it, psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove describes the profound traumatic stress- the "root shock"that results when a neighborhood is demolished. Focuses on the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the Central Ward in Newark, and Roanoke, Virginia. Rutgers-restricted Access
John Johnson, Jr. New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer, 2023, pp. 91-129
"This paper chronicles the history of interstate highway construction through the Weequahic Section of Newark, New Jersey...Tracing how urban renewal led to a broader set of changes in the Newark cityscape, this paper examines how city and state officials exploited Newark’s geographic resources, not for the benefit of Weequahic residents or Newark citizens more generally, but for downtown and regional commercial interests, and suburban commuters."
James McElroy. (M.A. Thesis) Rutgers University - Newark, 2016.
As approaches to the problem of food deserts are being developed, it is essential to keep in mind that barriers to nutrition have social as well as economic origins.
Newark, N.J. Central Planning Board. Prepared with the assistance of the Newark Commission for Neighborhood Conservation and Rehabilitation. 1961.
"[This report] is divided into three parts: principal elements of a continuing 10-year renewal program; community elements; and methods and techniques. This study embodies the experience and knowledge gained from an extensive analysis of Newark's renewal problems." Available?
Edad Mercier. Journal of Ethnic an Cultural Studies 7(3), August 14, 2020, pp.48-62.
"This article is a historiographical study of urban renewal in Newark, New Jersey. The paper offers a cross-sectional view of policymaking and appropriation at the federal and local levels, which is critical when analyzing the delimitations of ethnic coalition building. The article centers on a typological study of Black resistance to the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (NJCMD) construction project that was slated to commence around 1965-1966."
2021. Includes an interactive map tracking the displacement of the residents of University Heights over two phases of emigration, 1955-1964, and 1964-1972. Includes names of displaced residents. From the Newest Americans project.
Urban Development Policy Newark.
Newark, N.J. Mayor's Policy and Development Office. Division of Review and Planning, 1975. Available?
University City: New Town-In Town, Newark, New Jersey.
Grad Partnership. Newark, N.J., 1976. 2 vols.
Contents: Vol.1: Phase A. Analysis of Market Demands, Land Use and Activitiy Patterns. Vol.2: Phase B. Development of Concept Design for Nine Block Area. Available?
Debra Kim Flippen. Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1981.
"Renaissance Newark, Inc. represents a collaboraiton between private sector business leaders and government officials to plan and facilitate redevelopment in the downtown...The proposal, with its emphasis on the downtown exclusively, raises questions about its impact on the city as a whole.
Note: File format does not allow for copying or printing.
Newark, N.J., Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce, 1977.
"The "Newark Experience" is an 11-category, 10-year review of the city's progress in the areas of economic development, transportation, municipal finance, protective services, residential development, education, health care, hospital development, recreation and parks, preservation of our heritage, and cultural activities." Available?
Mark Alan Hughes. Journal of the American Planning Association 57(3), Summer 1991, 288-298.
"During the 1980s, northern New Jersey underwent a development surge that extended the metropolitan periphery and dramatically shifted employment across a larger and more dispersed set of locations throughout the region. This article explores the implications of this emerging settlement structure for employment accessibility from the region's center, the city of Newark. Rutgers-restricted Access
Newark, N.J., Council for Higher Education in Newark, 1992. Available?
Economic Redevelopment
Capital Program...As Recommended by the Mayor.
Newark, N.J., Division of City Planning, 1964-
Annual capital improvement program report. Available?
"A Large City's Capital Improvement Program Newark's 1964-1969 Plan,"
New Jersey Municipalities 41, June 1964, 17-23.
Excerpts from Newark's 1964/69 Capital Program report. Available?
An Economic Blueprint for Newark: The Overall Economic Development Program.
P. Bernard Nortman. Newark, N.J., Office of Economic Development, 1968. Available?
A Blueprint for Solving New Jersey's Fiscal & Tax Problems: A Guideline for Action for the State, for Newark and all Other Municipalities in New Jersey.
P. Bernard Nortman. Newark, Office of Economic Development, 1970. Available?
Economic Development Framework for the City of Newark, New Jersey.
Centaur Management Consultants. Prepared for the Overall Economic Development Program Committee, Inc., of Newark, New Jersey. Washington, D.C., 1973. Available?
South Orange Avenue Commercial Zone Improvement Study.
Abeles, Schwartz and Associates. Newark, Newark Economic Development Corporation, 1976. Available?
"Enterprise Renaissance Revitalizes Newark, N.J."
Rafael Zabala. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 10, Winter 1995, 112-115.
At the end of 1984, twenty percent of Newark was designated as the first enterprise zone in New Jersey. Results of the enterprise zone program. Available?