Word: urbanely
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Tarver is a former Louisiana state secretary of the Department of Urban and Community Affairs. He also has worked as the executive director of the Commission of Intergovernmental Relations in Louisiana...
...controversy over the proper approach to city planning has been raging for some time, becoming more acute as urban problems worsen. Criticism has battered the CRP, whose approach is decidedly untraditional. CRP opponents complain that the GSD, under the guidance of Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, is turning the planner into a technocrat, skilled in economic modelling and computer analysis, but insensitive to human concerns and aesthetic problems. Their criticism of Kilbridge extend outside the CRP to what they see is an insensitivity to the other more design-oriented departments at the school. CRP officials say Harvard...
Many professional planners support the CRP's approach and think it is the appropriate response to the current demands of employers. Weaver, former secretary of HUD and a member of the visiting committee of the GSD says the field of urban planning in America is focusing more and more on economic problems. It is dangerous to "have people who can make lovely plans and yet don't know how to implement them," Weaver says...
...Politics on "Chicano Political Development." Next year, Lopez says, he will be teaching a General Education course on the development of Hispanic communities in America. His past work includes My Brother Lyndon, a biography of the President written with Sam Houston Johnson, and Afro-6, a novel about urban street life of New York. Lopez is a jack of all trades--at least when it comes to writing. His next book is entitled Eros and Ethos: A Comparative Study of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant Sex Behavior...
...exempt from the jagged teeth of progress. It just took a while. The interstates bypassed it, sure; and the FHA-VA home loans went to buy up the old mill houses rather than add many suburbs to what had been a company town. There was hardly any urban renewal because there wasn't much to renew. The people who could have used the money--the 40 per cent of the town's population who were black and restricted mostly to the worst housing--didn't have the political power to make a money grab. Whites kept them out of power...