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Christian Science Monitor: Rob Fischer, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed urban renewal strategies that often disenfranchise long-standing residents of the neighborhoods that they intend to help.