Austin Urban Renewal Study(1949-1972)

After World War II, under the federal urban renewal in the background, the main city of the southwestern United States, Texas, the city has also been renewal, including Austin, Texas, has a more representative. This article will focus on the origin of Urban Renewal Movement, Origin and Development of urban renewal movement in Austin, Texas, as well as several major cities compare to discuss such issues separately, in order to sort out these problems and give answers.The main contents of this paper consists of three parts: The first part is an introduction, describes the origin and significance of the topic, foreign and domestic scholars to study issues related to the status and results, and describes the structure of research ideas and articles, the last of the concepts involved in doing article defined.The second part is the text of three chapters, the first chapter on federal urban renewal movement, Background, definition and history involving federal urban renewal movement, Texas urban development and renewal requirements. Body portion includes second and third chapters, mainly on the origin, development and comparison of Austin Urban Renewal movement. The second chapter introduces the main elaborate Austin "urban renewal" movement origin, course, including urban renewal plan, urban growth, urban issues, and end of the movement. Chapter III pointed Austin urban renewal movement characteristics, as well as other cities compare, and its inspiration.The third part is the conclusion of the article, Austin urban renewal through evaluation and analysis, Combined with the reality, extending to the real revelation of the Chinese urban development, summarize the successes and failures of urban renewal for us to further understand the inherent laws updated to grasp the process of urbanization and the development trend of urban renovation guide our practice there are reference for value.