Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London. To make way for a new road junction, London's urban planners recently decreed the destruction of The Elephant and Castle, a fabled 200-year-old pub, which lent something of the raffish, robust flavor of 18th century England to the whole London district of Southwark...
Sert opposes the contention that nothing is gained by moderate crowding. He feels that concentrated housing can provide definite benefits including the development of "urban character" and the conservation of land...
...wide inter-disciplinary scope of the new Harvard-M.I.T. Center for Urban Studies was outlined yesterday by Martin Meyerson, Director of the new Center, in announcing the composition of a joint Faculty Committee to set policy...
...relation of technological innovation to the metropolitan region, comparative analysis, both historical and contemporary of cities, and the application of research strategies to transportation problems are all areas of interest to the Center, according to Meyerson, as well as the question of methods of public and private control over urban change, problems of urbanization in developing countries, and investigations of social values and the community...
...urban renewal, the Administration hopes to hold the line at $1.45 billion spread through fiscal 1965, but the Senate insists on $2.1 billion through fiscal 1964 and the House wants $1.5 billion through fiscal 1961 alone. The nation's planners agree that big-city slums should be eliminated as fast as possible, but so far the Federal Government has footed two-thirds of the cost. The Administration wants to cut its share to 50% by 1963. It thus intends to prod the states, which have done little spending so far for urban renewal. The Administration figures the states should...