Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the Government sunk millions into the London ring without any immediate profits, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government did not designate any new towns in England until a few years ago. Now profits from increased land values in the London ring, together with the development of the town center concept by a prominent architect, has led to the designation of another ten towns...
...main problems. According to the New Towns Act, the Ministry can establish public corporations "to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of land and other property, to carry out any business or undertaking in or for the purpose of the new town." The breadth of the corporational mandate usually alienates local politicians. They resent the intrusion of highly educated administrators and architects into their districts. And since the corporation must consult local authorities at each planning stage, fierce fights often occur. For example at Hemel Hempstead the local residents brought the Ministry into court because they felt the corporation was ignoring...
...other hand the corporation must depend on local authorities to supply schools, playing fields, and civic auditoriums. The Corporation is allowed to spend only $14 per person on these projects. Since most town councils are reluctant to raise taxes, the corporations must constantly pressure local officials to fulfill their obligations. Usually local authorities remain hostile for about five years until new town people take over the elected offices and new factories begin supplementing local revenues...
...national economy is unlikely to improve quickly, the Government could take certain moves to help solve the other problems facing new towns. Sociologists as well as architects and engineers could be part of new town planning teams. Corporations could be given to power to build social facilities, while local authorities could be better represented on corporation boards. The Government could insist that each corporation have a Social Development Office, of equal status to the Architectural office, that would respond to the inhabitants' needs. To help bring the corporation in closer contact to the residents and improve the social balance...
...level, and it had no access to needed federal equipment. It is precisely this kind of unit that Defense Secretary McNamara has been trying for years to get rid of. But getting rid of units means getting rid of juicy officer posts in the state. Local politicians and Congressmen are shocked at the thought...