Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confronted by an increasingly rapid exodus of industry, money, and residents, last May, a Cambridge group headed by Paul R. Corcoran sent a workable program for Urban Renewal to Washington. Although it was approved there in October, little but talk has come of it since then...
...Housing Act of 1954 provided for Urban Renewal as a national program which offers individual cities two-thirds of the cost of long-range improvements. To receive this aid, each city must prepare an effective city-wide plan for clearing and rebuilding slums, substantially improving run-down areas, strictly enforcing housing codes in other neighborhoods, and consolidating business sections. This kind of planning does not come easily. Only about sixty cities have taken up the government's offer, with four of them in New England--Somerville, Portland, Portsmouth, and Cambridge...
...program itself presents many problems in Cambridge. In aiming to consolidate residential, commercial, and industrial sections, Urban Renewal would deprive some residents of their homes and would cut down on the income of a few absentee landlords. Another of its aims is slum clearance. Of the houses moved out under this program, most would be pre-1890. Many without efficient central heating and in districts where the average family rent runs around $20 a month. In these areas residents could afford better housing, if there were...
...mayor declined comment on University expansion or on the city's urban renewal scheme, which would rebuild large sections of the city with the aid of federal funds. "I haven't given these problems enough study," he said...
...C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...