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Community Development Plan for North Omaha
1979 to 1982A comprehensive development plan for the community of North Omaha, with 13,000 people and 4 square miles total area. Strong emphasis on community reconstruction and on the economic development of a depressed inner city neighborhood, with 95 percent black people. The substance of the plan has to do with the creation of a process by which people can create a community for themselves. .
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Master Plan for North Omaha: Request regarding allocation of Block Grant funds to the North Omaha Community Development Corporation; article from Sun Newspapers, 13-Dec-1979, attached
11/12/1979
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Master Plan for North Omaha: Summary of the agreement regarding salaries, expected work to be performed, and other team expenses and obligations as employee to the Center for Environmental Structure
30/10/1979
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Master Plan for North Omaha: Draft letter referring to the project process and the importance of the idea of a full involvement by all neighborhoods of the area in study, asking for the support of the Housing and Community Development Department
01/01/1979
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Rebirth of the Inner City: North Omaha Community Development Plan
01/11/1979
Early draft, organized in seven chapters, with a Preface, presenting the problems at hand, the community and city economic and social character and an Introduction, referring to a Ten Year Budget, as the base of the economic planning process. Chapter ...
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Rebirth of the Inner City: Master Plan for North Omaha; includes two copies of the manuscript, the second titled "North Omaha Plan - Outline" with corrections and notes incorporated in the first
07/12/1979
Early draft, organized in seven chapters, with a Preface, which defines the place and role of North Omaha for the city, and an Introduction, referring to the Ten Year Budget, required for the process of reconstruction. Chapter 1: Human Structure; ...
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Rebirth of the Inner City: Omaha Plan; a detailed structure of Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7
01/01/1981
112-page draft with a more in-depth reference to the following chapters: The City, The Community, The Neighborhood, The Individual Families and Businesses.
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North Omaha Plan: Preliminary Design Drawings - Reduction drawings of Neighborhood Plans
01/01/1980
Fifteen drawings of seven North Omaha neighborhood plans; the set of drawings for each neighborhood depicts its development in relationship to funding for the years 1979-80 and 1980-81.
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North Omaha Plan: Preliminary Design Drawings - Neighborhood Plans
01/01/1980
Nine partial neighborhood plans of the complete area under study, reduced in scale.
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Development Plan for North Omaha: Agreement - Center for Environmental Structure
04/09/1979
15-page agreement between the City of Omaha, the North Omaha Community Development Council and the Center for Environmental Structure, which is to provide planning services for the development of a comprehensive community improvement plan based on: A. Economic Development; ...
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Rebirth of the Inner City: The North Omaha Plan
01/01/1981
The substance of the plan has to do with the creation of a process by which people can create a community for themselves. 233-page report organized in three parts, as follows; Part One: The Assumptions of the Plan; Part Two: ...
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North Omaha Plan: Phographs of project site existing conditions
01/01/1980
Seventy-two images of the city, focusing on the roads and the building character of the area under study.
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North Omaha Plan: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1980
Outline plan of the North Omaha area under study.
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North Omaha Plan: Phographs of project site existing conditions
01/01/1980
Eight photographs of the communities under study, five of which are included in the report “Rebirth of the Inner City”, in the title page, and in Chapters 1, 4 and 8.
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References
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...
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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...