Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spread those population magnets around, the Government is helping to finance a modestly ambitious new-towns effort. But little significant population redistribution is taking place, because developers like to site their new towns near existing metropolitan areas in order to increase their chances for success. Demographers are generally skeptical of the chances for much reshuffling. They note that the Soviet Union has avoided a mass migration to Moscow only by imposing a system of work and residency permits that would be intolerable in the West...
...TOWNS should be more strongly created. One reason: when these longterm, large-scale projects are begun by developers, they know that they will be on the site for years and be easy targets for complaints and lawsuits. Thus developers tend to plan better and build better. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development should help to finance-not simply guarantee loans covering-the high early costs (planning, road and sewer building) of new towns whose builders pledge to include substantial amounts of housing for the poor. HUD should also streamline bureaucratic procedures now ensnarling existing programs. For their part...
Demolition of the buildings on the proposed site--the Bennett St. MBTA yards--cannot begin until the site has been approved by the Federal government according to guidelines issued by the Council on Environmental Quality...
...England. Total sales have now passed the one-million mark in both England and the U.S. His Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, founded on the Channel island of Jersey in 1963 to preserve endangered species, now has 7,300 members in more than 50 countries (annual dues, $7.50) and the site receives 180,000 visitors a year...
Summer School classes were scheduled as far away from the site as possible. Can we take what the Summer School students cannot...