Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As in so many crises of the environment, plans for the $11.2 million dam went unprotested until nearly too late. In 1967, the conservationists went to work. That archchampion of the wilderness, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, led hikers through the gorge to publicize its impending fate. "The building...
The crises of the urban environment suggest the depth and complexity of issues in the management of our society. Why have we had such difficulty, steadily mounting difficulty, in getting at these problems? One might blame our apathy, or our unwillingness to spend, or our resistance to change. But something...
The spirit of constructive cooperation and egalitarianism which surrounds community schools has suggestive parallels in an institution characteristic of a very different culture and environment: the Israeli Kibbutz. Bruno Bettleheim, the psychiatrist, has suggested that nothing short of lifting ghetto children out of the ghetto environment, and placing them in...
It has been my experience in operating rental housing to a primarily university clientele in both Cambridge and Ithaca that the single most important factor leading to resident satisfaction is the social environment in the building. Decoration and facilities are about tied for second. Location, construction quality, price, etc. are...
To this rewarding assignment, Associate Editor Gurney Breckenfeld, who wrote this week's Business story, "Why Tax Reform Is So Urgent and So Unlikely," brings more enthusiasm and experience than most. About a decade ago, Breckenfeld's involvement in the murky problems of housing finance, real estate taxes...