Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget would allow PBH to hire more part-time professional consultants, who are needed to help in its increasingly close work with neighborhood families and in its mental hospital programs...
...young architect in I.M.Pei's firm has since November been working full time dreaming up design ideas for the neighborhood (one far-out possibility: enclosing a mile of elevated line inside a high-rise commercial complex, burying the heavily traveled truck route that runs under it, and turning the ground level into a pedestrian mall...
...hoping for $8 million under the recent Kennedy-Javits amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act; it provides incentives to businesses which set up on-the-job training programs. Even without that money, a small metal-working firm, providing 30 or 40 jobs, has agreed to locate in the neighborhood, and five other companies of about that size are considering the idea...
...nevertheless insisted on taking him on a walking tour of the area. He was appalled at what he saw, and impressed by the demands and sophistication of the CBCC spokesmen. With reason: the women who dominated CBCC have had a lot of experience in drawing up plans for their neighborhood, and they knew pretty much what they wanted...
They had worked closely with a couple of planners at the Pratt Institute (located on the northeast fringe of the neighborhood) in drawing up a proposal for coordinated community development. That plan, published in 1965 and sent out to a large number of public officials, is widely credited as the prototype of the Model Cities program. It set the guidelines for the current project...