Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several Cambridge civic leaders, including a director of the League of Women Voters, exposed an important problem when they accused Harvard and M.I.T. of failing to give the City sufficient co-operation on its plans for urban development. In the opinion of many local citizens, Harvard considers itself too important on a national and international level to bother with the problems of the mere community in which it happens to be located. Unfortunately, the University has at times given Cantabrigians good reason for this resentful attitude. No longer can Massachusetts Hall fail to realize, however, that Cambridge's troubles...
...least one planning executive to devote more time to the problem. Such an official could use Faculty talent in the Design School and other parts of the University to develop an overall "master plan" for Harvard's future development, and could work in close co-operation with the urban renewal director that Cambridge will shortly appoint...
...William Wainwright, who is in charge of urban renewal for the league's Cambridge chapter, asserted that the University has not only failed to aid City Hall planners in their attempt to may a new and better Cambridge, but has gone ahead with its own building plans without even consulting the city...
Despite the obvious need for haste, the city has as yet implemented only one of the three proposals that it approved last spring. The Council last month officially set up the Redevelopment Authority, but the Urban Renewal Supervisor and the Housing Agency--which logically should have been the first steps in the program--still exist on paper only...
...municipal election campaign that ended yesterday, every candidate for the City Council promised firm support for the Urban Renewal Plan. But opposing slums and juvenile delinquency in the abstract is like opposing sin; only concrete actions count. Before time runs out on the Federal grant, the new City Councilors should join with City Manager Curry and produce some real progress toward urban renewal. As soon as possible they should appoint a general supervisor and establish a housing authority, so that the embryonic Redevelopment Authority will know where and how to start work. If these steps are taken and the necessary...