Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served as director of social sciences research at Urban Systems Research and Engineering Corporation in Cambridge from 1971 until 1975, when he was elected to the board of directors...
North Americans have built handsome cities and grown tired of them, as children grow tired of their presents after Christmas. Few architects are as aware of such urban waste as Canada's Arthur Erickson, 54, and few have done more to restore vitality to the inner city. His latest and most ambitious undertaking is a combination of function and fantasy in the heart of his native Vancouver. Formally opened in September, the downtown complex has already put new fizz in the life of a provincial city...
...correct answer (12 ft.) was given by 82% of the 17-year-olds from solidly middle-class urban areas but only 29% of the poor teen-agers got it right...
...directly into the police and fire pension funds to keep them afloat. One former city employee who contributed only $35 to his retirement plan when he was on the payroll has collected $280,000 in benefits since he finished working. Says Chester Pierce, Hamtramck's acting director of urban renewal: "Within the next 20 years, pensions will rival energy as the major problem facing the United States...
Though most of the school's students are young or middle-aged people who want to break away from urban life, more older people are beginning to sign up. Hennin had hoped for a higher proportion of applicants with low incomes, but poor people seem to believe they do not have the time or the money to build a house. Pat disagrees: "Many poor and working people buy a trailer for $18,000, and spend a fortune heating it and patching up the rust. For much less, they could have a solid house, a good investment...