Urban renewal on the last frontier |
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| Authors: | Morgan Sherwood |
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| Affiliation: | Department of History , University of California , Davis, California, 95616, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | After the Alaskan earthquake of 1964, the frontier fishing village of Seldovia was threatened by high tides along its picturesque downtown waterfront. The availability of federal reconstruction funds lured policy makers to opt for urban renewal rather than rehabilitation. The result was an economic, social and aesthetic disaster. The episode illustrates some of the difficulties of environmental management on the last U.S. frontier. |
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