Model City

Throughout the 1950s and '60s, New Haven Connecticut was the nation's laboratory for urban renewal policy. Under the modernist vision of Mayor Richard C. Lee, highways and housing projects r... Read allThroughout the 1950s and '60s, New Haven Connecticut was the nation's laboratory for urban renewal policy. Under the modernist vision of Mayor Richard C. Lee, highways and housing projects replaced "blighted" communities with empty ones. Using archival, contemporary, and time-lap... Read allThroughout the 1950s and '60s, New Haven Connecticut was the nation's laboratory for urban renewal policy. Under the modernist vision of Mayor Richard C. Lee, highways and housing projects replaced "blighted" communities with empty ones. Using archival, contemporary, and time-lapse footage, Model City documents a low point in urban history.