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Title: The Trap of Triage; Lessons from the "Team Four Plan"

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: In 1975, consultants from Team Four Inc. advised St. Louis planners to pursue a strategy of neighborhood triage: conservation for areas in good health, redevelopment for areas just starting to decline, and depletion for areas already in severe distress. The firms recommended strategy reflected the latest thinking among urban planners, but it provoked outrage among residents of the citys predominantly black North Side, who read depletion as a promise of benign neglect. In this article, I explain how Team Four justified its advice, and why, four decades later, the controversy over its memo persists.

Url: http://jph.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/07/1538513215602026.full.pdf+html

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Authors: Cooper-McCann, Patrick

Periodical (Full): Journal of Planning History

Issue: 2

Volume: 15

Pages: 149-169

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States