Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income, $6,000 to $9,000 a year in New York and other big cities, is high enough to bar him from public housing but too low for luxury apartments. High-rental apartments continue to rise, and low-income projects spread by the acre, but building for the urban middle-income group has stopped almost entirely. Such families are often forced to settle for poor housing or pay rents -way above 25% of income-which they cannot afford. Said the Senate Committee on Banking: "Housing available or in prospect for families in the middle-income group is wholly inadequate...
...your Aug. 5 issue on Europe's plazas. It is amazing and certainly very encouraging to find that your magazine is interested in this subject. It is of very real importance to current American development, especially in view of the tremendous program supported by federal funds for urban renewal...
...group. Said he: "Let's aim for some solid accomplishment." As the conference adjourned to let federal-state staffs work out details of its decisions, so much had been accomplished that federal representatives were already looking ahead to bigger programs that could be surrendered in coming years (e.g., urban redevelopment and an end to federal grants...
...most precious commodity-space-to create the great, timeless squares, piazze, places and Plätse. The best and most famous are the squares of Europe, handsome units of big-city living, often breathtakingly beautiful, exciting to walk through, and a breath of fresh air amidst the clutter of urban living. Against their splendid backdrops have unrolled many of the high moments of history. Through the centuries they have served as inspiration and model for the world's great architects...
...means as widespread as many Northern civil rights advocates believe. Through Texas, Arkansas and the Border States, Negroes not only register and vote but make such an impact at local-election levels that both parties bid for their support. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida, urban Negroes generally register and vote, while rural Negroes do not. The greatest concentration of civil rights violations at the polls lies in four states of the Deep South, and the statistics readily prove the point...