Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Zeckendorf, president of Webb & Knapp, Inc., set the theme for the Harvard Urban Design Conference last night when he asserted that "the future of the city must be subordinated to the city planning board...
Zeckendorf predicted that the earth's population would reach three billion by 1975. Without immediate urban "reshaping" to meet this increase, he felt that cities would flow into each other "in an endless morbid fluid community...
Immediate plans for urban redevelopment in Cambridge do not appear endangered by proposed cutbacks in the budget of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, members of the City Council said yesterday...
Federal budget cutbacks should not affect these two projects. However, they represent only the very beginning of a vast program for urban renewal for Cambridge, the remainder of which will be seriously jeopardized by budget reductions, in the opinion of the Citizens Advisory Committee...
...bare more of the bad than the good in them. Coming from states whose literacy rates are below the national average (exception: Missouri), the clannish, independent migrants show a deep-rooted aversion not only for the law, but also for sanitation, schooling, church and most other alien urban institutions as well. Though police, school, health and social-welfare agencies all agree that these newcomers are their No. 1 problem, few Chicagoans were aware of the seriousness of that problem until last week, when the Chicago Tribune ran a hair-raising series on the hillbillies...