Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only black member of the Federal Communications Commission; Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, 36; N.A.A.C.P. Lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, 65, sometimes described as "the 101st Senator"; N.A.A.C.P. Official Gloster Current, 63, who now handles many of the organization's administrative details; and Gustav Heningburg, 46, director of the Newark Urban Coalition...
America's history is not like Italy's, nor does the U.S. have an urban history over 500 years old. But the story does illustrate two broad points. First, that historians trying to fashion a "history from the bottom up" encounter problems elitist historians rarely encounter: the elites of the past could afford the time, money and energy to carefully preserve their lives and times from their perspective; the members of the lower classes had none of these advantages and historians concerned about them are waging a long and difficult struggle to set the facts of history aright. Moreover...
...rationale is part aesthetic-the old buildings often have a certain charm and a nostalgic quality-and part economic. To convert a leather factory to handsome apartments in Peabody, Mass., cost $16 per square foot. "By contrast," says William Wheaton, an urban economist at M.I.T., "you cannot build any new housing for less than $22 a square foot, and it looks like hell when it is built." To make conversion even more attractive, the Federal Government will help pay for such projects...
...reality proved a long and arduous task. The cost of buying the buildings and refurbishing them would come to $30 million; banks refused to lend that much unless the project could come up with some major tenants. In 1972 Shopping Center Developer James Rouse, convinced that a lively, unique urban market contained a high potential for profit, joined the cause. His commitment opened the taps of private and public money...
...relatively picturesque, somewhat historic, largely traffic-free, and not overly demanding route. Since crossing deserts is hazardous, the western end of the trail was kept wen to the north. The North Central plains tend toward macadam monotony, so the route drops south to skirt the Ozarks. To avoid urban sprawl, Bike-centennial is a Baedeker of back roads...