Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were disturbing Labor Day incidents last week in Hartford, Conn., Camden, N.J., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the present calm context, they seem somehow atavistic-only smaller recurrences in lesser cities of the convulsions that racked major metropolises much earlier. The whites and blacks of minor urban centers are still learning the lessons that have brought a hopeful Thermidor transformation to cities already tempered in destructive flames. For New York, Newark, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Detroit, it was the fire last time-and those cities may have profited from the experience...
...blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center for Urban Studies, observes: "The black community realizes that riots hurt them more than help them...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nixon's urban affairs adviser, believes that possibly the high point of violence has already been reached. "I would think we have passed that," he said last week. If he is right-and events going back through this summer to the Martin Luther King riots of 1968 indicate that he might be-it is an extraordinary and unexpected evolution within the black revolution. In the worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race...
...some of the younger girls, that was all there was." Esther's mother is a former Democratic National Committeewoman from Connecticut. Esther worked for the Senate subcommittee on government reorganization before she joined R.F.K.'s staff in 1968. She now assists the vice president of the Urban Institute in Washington...
...shape of a very sharp pyramid. The building in question is the proposed $30 million head office of Transamerica Corporation. When erected, it will be the tallest building in the West, and the issues it raises go straight to the heart of one of the most vexing problems of urban planning: where should the line be drawn between private convenience and the public good, especially when the public good is as intangible as a beautiful view...