Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyway, so I went along, then the Urban Renewal thing came in. I realized then that it would hurt everybody in the city, the way they were taking the city apart, and I question the legality of taking these properties by eminent domain and giving them to somebody else. Which is absolutely illegal, it's still in my opinion illegal, and it was declared so by Judge Dimmond of the Supreme Court in Alaska. And that was the first time it was taken to a Supreme Court. He said this Urban Renewal, this group, just a freewheeling group...
From Cities to Farms. Much of the current push comes from the 1968 Housing and Urban Development Act, which HUD Secretary Robert C. Weaver calls "a new and major national commitment to the problems of cities." The act gives the nation the optimistic goal of building 26 million housing units in ten years, as against the 14 million actually built in the past decade...
...reduces the comparatively free access other countries enjoy to the world's largest market, it risks a prosperity-wrecking shrinkage in world trade. If the U.S. cooled its heated domestic economy enough to bring prices in line with those of foreign goods, the resulting unemployment would aggravate today's urban crisis and make U.S. companies less enticing to foreign investors...
...sponsor is the American Cancer Society. The commercial represents what might be called the new "spoiler" genre of public-service messages that are stirring the TV air and, at times, the American conscience. Urban America Inc has a commercial showing a ghetto child who calls, "Here, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. Nice kitty." The camera discovers a rat. Voiceover: "If your child mistook a rat for a cat, how would you feel? Our cities need help, your help. If you think there's nothing you can do to help, think harder...
Sickening Collision. A water-pollution spot uses the background sound ( a flushing toilet to dramatize the condition of many U.S. rivers and streams; an antilitter campaign depicts a community overrun by snorting pigs. In the "Give a Damn" campaign for the New York Urban Coalition, a black narrator suggests to white viewers: "Send your kid to a ghetto for the summer. Want to see the pool? C'mon. The kids clog up the sewer with garbage, open a hydrant . . . You don't want your kids to play here this summer? Then don't expect ours...