Word: decay
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...home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding awareness of social forces. In his own eccentric way, the city planner is trying to understand the dispiriting decay of his time and his place. He wants to reconcile his early socialist ideals with the "society of centralized reallocation" that he and his fellow bureaucrats have engineered. He wonders why the exercise of power has left him feeling so weak: "A planner can neither improve things nor make them much...
...still controlled and regulated by the colonialist masters. Our political parties have no well-defined programs. Most of our leaders have become thoughtless and unwholesome. Our politicians are more of salesmen than statesmen. Much wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee the country or suffer in silence. The army which should protect the interest of the people has become fickle-minded and equally as corrupt as the governments...
...Arson is a barometer of urban decay," says New York City Deputy Chief Fire Marshal John Barracato, "and most city fathers are ashamed to admit they have this problem." But the ruinous dimensions cannot be hidden. In New York City's South Bronx, where Jimmy Carter took an impromptu walking tour earlier this month, there have been more than 7,000 fires in the past two years. "The destruction is reminiscent of the bombed-out cities in Europe," says Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, who was a navigator in World War II. Chicago's Humboldt Park area...
...statement, called the "Manifesto of the Democratic Movement," attacked the "present economic disorganization, decay of authority and disintegration of society." The reason for this situation, it argued, was "the usurpation of the rights of citizens and the robbing of the nation's independence...
...WELFARE AND JOB PROGRAMS do not an urban policy make. Moreover, the bombedout World War II look of the South Bronx and limits their ability to help urban areas. indirectly by attacking poverty and other sources of urban decay. Welfare and employment stimuli will prove regenerative for the cities only in the long term. In the short run, the tendency of these programs to focus on people at the expense of their physical surroundings and the delivery of services limits it ability to help urban areas...