Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs; in the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities bill, which leaves it to the mayors to tie together some 200 different federal urban programs into a coherent attack on blight. Under Johnson, moreover, private enterprise for the first time assumed an active role in the rehabilitation of the nation's cities
Johnson edges Nixon in the election 5-4, with 75 million abstentions. Early returns from urban areas indicate there are no urban areas. Johnson appoints a high-level secret panel of modeerate urbanologists to locate them. At a Cambridge press confeerence, Oscar Handlin accepts the appointment...
Another example of urban negligence has long been the waterfront, the city's forgotten edge where old warehouses and factories stand abandoned and dis integrating. But lately across the U.S., the waterfront has begun to shape up. Architects always realized that the aging brick warehouses had character. Now planners and investors are taking advantage of their no-nonsense style and vast space and are remodeling them -rather than tearing them down-to make roomy apartments and lively shopping areas...
Boston has already revitalized much of its wharf area. In St. Louis, preservationists have presented plans to save from urban removal several cast-ironfront buildings north of the Jefferson Memorial Gateway Arch. And in Seattle, a vociferous citizens' group called "Friends of the Market" is winning its fight to resuscitate the flavorful but financially fading Farmer's Market on Puget Sound as an area for art galleries, shops and boutiques...
...flee themselves. Europeans come to America only to find that they and their new country are incompatible; Americans go to Europe and dream of coming home. Miss Stead also fences with the discontents and ambiguities of big-city life. In one story, an alcoholic who has buckled under urban pressure "longs for the simple rest of a child or a woman or a dog." Yet he knows that "a man wants more, much more." Wit, satire, views on social, moral and intellectual history -the author offers them with a refinement and subtlety that provide fresh insights into the daily experiences...