1. 1 Mark Melady, “Housing is Critical for Renewal: Fourth of Five Parts,” Hartford Courant, Dec. 29, 1971, p. 34B.
2. 2 Richard Baber, "Vacant Lots and Broken Dreams: Urban Renewal in Willimantic, Connecticut," Connecticut History (1993): 73-90. Barber recounts political events surrounding the redevelopment but pays little attention to its impact on interethnic relations in town
3. the centrality of the Puerto Rican experience is largely absent from his otherwise thorough account. For the reflection on the legacy of the redevelopment, see also Mark Svetz, "Redevelopment: A Mixed Blessing," The Windham Phoenix 1, no. 4 (March 1986): 9-10.
4. 3 For the history of urban renewal see for example Jon C. Teaford, The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940–1985 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); Christopher Klemek, The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011); Mark H. Rose and Raymond A. Mohl, Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy since 1939, 3rd ed. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2012); Samuel Zipp, Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Oxford University Press, 2010).
5. 4 Bret A. Weber and Amanda Wallace, “Revealing the Empowerment Revolution: A Literature Review of the Model Cities Program,” Journal of Urban History 38, no. 1 (2012): 173–92; John Sasso and Priscilla Foley, A Little Noticed Revolution: An Oral History of the Model Cities Program and Its Transition to the Community Development Block Grant Program (Berkeley: University of California, 2005).