Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position paper stressed the "primary" role of designers and planners in helping to solve the nation's urban problems. It charged, "our professions are largely irrelevant to the crisis of poverty and racial injustice...
...statement distributed at Saturday's ground-breaking exercises for George Gund Hall, the new Graduate School of Design headquarters, called for a "reordering of priorities" to relate architectural education more closely with the nation's urban needs...
...artillery? As the cops figure it, the thugs were less afraid of a police bust than of each other. The meeting in the mountains was apparently called to settle a power struggle between the younger Mafiosi, who are keen on such things as dope smuggling, kidnaping and other urban crimes, and their extortion-oriented elders, who have been taking a pounding from the police lately. Over the past two years, Calabrian officials, using special legislation, have sent 274 Mafiosi into "enforced residence" in Northern Italy, threatened another 789 with similar exile, put 198 under surveillance, and revoked the driver...
Having invented urban sprawl, Californians may be among the first to find ways of revitalizing and rebuilding the inner cities. Los Angeles, with its stubborn refusal to invest in efficient rapid transit, may yet be obliged to give up the automobile and go to subways; for a model, there will be San Francisco's computer-controlled BART (Bay Area Transit) system, which is, after many years, now within reach of completion...
Bowles and MacEwan also tell us that the "human costs of rapid economic growth... the fracture of a community, for example-are seldom considered." Few Western economists need to be told of the "human costs of rapid economic growth," though more familiar examples are urban congestion and pollution, and many will join in regretting that such costs are not given more weight in actual development programs...