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secured his hometown's inclusion in the project. Several buildings in downtown
Smithville, such as the Dekalb County Court House and the Smithville City Hall, were built from funds from the Model Cities Project. They are still in use as of 2014, and make up a good portion of the city's downtown
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programs and alternative forms of municipal government. Model Cities represented a new approach that emphasized social program as well as physical renewal, and sought to coordinate the actions of numerous government agencies in a multifaceted attack on the complex roots of urban poverty. The
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was the only elected official to serve on
President Johnson's task force. Detroit received widespread acclaim for its leadership in the program, which used $ 490 million to try to turn a 9 sq mi (23 km) section of the city (with 134,000 inhabitants) into a model city.
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is 1,300 ft (400 m) wide, 3,700 ft (1,100 m) long, and 523 ft (159 m) deep. The project was completed in 1987 following 14 years of work for a total cost of $ 77.6 million. The cut-through provides a path for a four-lane highway, a
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Other evaluations have identified both failures and success in the Model Cities program, with its limited effectiveness attributed to a combination of complicated bureaucracy, inadequate funding, and competing agendas at the local level.
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Ricardo A. Millett, "Examination of 'Widespread
Citizen Participation' in the Model Cities Program and the Demands of Ethnic Minorities for a Greater Decision Making Role in American Cities" (PhD diss., Brandeis University,
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received funding. The program's initial goals emphasized comprehensive planning, emphasizing not just rebuilding, but also rehabilitation, social-service delivery, and citizen participation. In 1969, the
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Solomon G. Jacobson, "Implementation of a
Federal Program at the Local Level: A Critique of the Introduction of the Model Cities Planning Program in Detroit" (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1977)
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Franklyn Lee Hruza, "Seattle Model Cities
Program: A Case Study of Citizen Participation in the Planning Process During the Initial Planning Year, 1967–68" (PhD diss., University of Washington, 1972)
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President Johnson in an off-the-record White House meeting on May 20, 1965. In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to develop new
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programs, and bureaucratic difficulties in the first years of the War on
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administration officially changed course; however in the majority of cities, citizen-participation mechanisms continued to play an important role in local decision-making.
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Richard Davis, "An Appraisal of Selected Economic Development Projects of the Texarkana, Texas Model Cities Program" (PhD diss., University of Arkansas, 1975)
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A Little Noticed Revolution: An Oral History of the Model Cities Program and Its Transition to the Community Development Block Grant Program
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