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Jack Meltzer (August 21, 1921 – May 5, 2010) was a leading figure of urban renewal during the 1950s and 1960s primarily in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. He was one of three people who most shaped the direction of the future Hyde Park.〔University of Chicago Chronicle, March 20, 2008, by Steve Koppes〕 == The 1950s == As director of planning for the South East Chicago Commission from 1954 to 1958, he took on the job of planning how millions in federal money would be spent to fend off blight in Chicago's Hyde Park and Kenwood neighborhoods. The Hyde Park Herald newspaper praised Meltzer as “a young man with a sense of humor and a sense of responsibility” in 1954 when "He was the planner in the middle of the maelstrom,” said Bruce Sagan, then and now publisher of the Herald. “As a planner he had this wonderful moment to work out this new idea— the problem was it was a very controversial idea.” Throughout the mid-1950s, Meltzer was the public face of a program that dramatically reshaped the physical landscape of Hyde Park and cemented the neighborhood’s reputation for public engagement on all public projects. “No planner can proceed with a disregard for the wishes of the community if he is to succeed. I hope the various civic groups in the community will make known their ideas and wishes to me," Meltzer said when he took up the planning of urban renewal in 1954. Meltzer remained calm at the time when neighbors and parents harshly rebuked him for his plan to demolish housing to make way for a school expansion. “The amazing thing about Hyde Park ... is not its problems but the fact that it has resisted them," Meltzer said in 1956. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Meltzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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