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While running for the presidency, John F. Kennedy sought Wood’s advice on urban issues and Wood wrote a campaign speech...
...wrote “Suburbia, Its People and Their Politics,” one of the first books about the problems of the American city, according to his wife. He wrote several more books about government and urban welfare throughout his career, the last published...
...while a member—and later chairman—of the Political Science Department at MIT, Wood led the task force in the Johnson administration that created the Department of Housing and Urban Development and served as the department’s first undersecretary. He helped create the Model Cities Program, which directed federal funds towards needy neighborhoods; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in real estate transactions. He also chaired the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority...
...involved with the country that you felt that whatever you said might make a difference,” said Jody Fisher Williams ’56, for whom Wood served as thesis adviser. She later worked under him at MIT and at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, where Wood was director from...
Britney and her posse of what look like sloppily spray-painted mannequins from a run-down Urban Outfitters basement transition from a preposterously fake space-ship to a cloud-riding pink hummer to a club filled to the brim with a doped-up entourage of anorexic Hollywood dancer-waiters. I was, at first, reminded of “Dirrty”, but, after looking back, I realized that, by comparison, Christina’s video is a beautiful allegorical representation of the struggles of the working class...