Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leaders. Brazil started early, and, thanks to booming São Paulo (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952), has the greatest number of distinguished buildings. But in recent years other countries have made giant strides. Historian Hitchcock labels Mexico's University City (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) "the most spectacular extra-urban architectural entity of the North American continent." In about five years, the building boom has raised the height of typical buildings in Caracas, Venezuela from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels...
Catford Street, London, is not Tobacco Road or Cannery Row, but Slum Alley, universal home of the urban poor. Its children are grimy urchins, and the world scuffs them underfoot like dirty snow. But a Catford Street child may still skip to a dream of beauty between the slabs of concrete. This is the story of Lovejoy Mason, a ten-year-old asphalt sparrow, and her dream. A co-selection of the Book- of-the-Month Club for December, An Episode of Sparrows may well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over...
President Pusey told a dinner meeting of local citizens and the City Planning Board this week that the University will support the efforts of local citizens to get an effective urban renewal program under...
...next step in the urban renewal scheme will be the appointment of a Cambridge Redevelopment Authority by City Manager John J. Curry '19. Curry declined to fix a final date for the appointment...
...Cambridge Civic Association and other local ements are backing the formation of the proposed citizens' committee. The group could be either a temporary one to stimulate effective action on urban renewal or a permanent organization for the encouragement of local reforms as they are needed...