Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popular support is problematic. Many of his partisans, stunned and embittered, have already forsworn further interest in the outcome of the election-an attitude that would hurt the Democratic candidate in November. Yet thousands of former R.F.K. backers in organized labor and among Negroes, Mexican-Americans and urban ethnic groups will undoubtedly gravitate to Humphrey. Students, intellectuals and antiwar Democrats who favored Kennedy will probably wind up with McCarthy...
Runaway Train. What Hofheinz, Disney and other big developers are cashing in on is a remarkable phenomenon best described as the "Disneyland Effect." Stated simply, the thesis is that what's missing in urban life is a sense of fun, and that once a fun area is built, it proves to be a powerful, regenerative force that brings prosperity to the whole surrounding area...
...Barring urban catastrophe, the Joint Center will continue to do eminently respectable and ultimately useful research. It will not involve itself in the ghetto. Says Jack Rosenthal, a visiting associate, "If you examine the Joint Center on its own terms, it's really rather good: as a research center for people who have their own things to do. It's taking a perfectly sensible course--but a luxurious one at this point...
Both members and non-members point to Urban Planning Aid as the kind of enterprise academic people can engage in outside the auspices of the university. UPA is a firm of consultants founded, as Thernstrom puts it, "on the assumption that one of the reasons poor people get screwed is that they no technical competence." The members (two of them, Chester Hartman and Lisa Peattie, are Joint Center members) volunteer their services to represent the poor to development authorities...
...funded entirely by the American Friends Service Committee, has none of the financial hang-ups the Joint Center has--at any rate it has different ones. Roxbury groups which are unlikely to request assistance from an urban-studies center affiliated with Harvard and MIT are considerably more inclined to go to a private organization...