Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven years ago, Martin Myerson, the then director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, received a letter from the City Manager of Cambridge, John Curry '19, asking for ideas "to make the town move forward." Myerson's answer was simple and provocative. He put forward plans for a "private development corporation" which would take advantage of industry and the universities -- the huge resources the Cambridge community had never before really tapped...
...American political system--increasingly beset with violence--is approaching a crisis, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, said last night...
What has particularly upset Coser and other intellectuals is the Review's response to last summer's urban riots. In a long commentary on the subject, Kopkind wrote that everybody was helpless and society in convulsion. "Liberalism proves hardly more effective than fascism." Belittling Martin Luther King as an "irrelevancy," Kopkind defended the rioters. "Morality, like politics," he wrote, "starts at the barrel...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, eager to cut down on air pollution and city traffic headaches, last week endorsed a snappy 9-ft. "minicar" that would be about half as long as today's intermediate Chevrolets and Fords, create one-tenth of the pollution. Developed under a $299,995 HUD grant to the University of Pennsylvania with help from General Motors, the three-passenger, 100-mile-range "hybrid" could whiz along highways at 60 m.p.h. on a small gasoline engine, switch to a battery-powered electric motor for tooling around town...
...hopes to have a prototype built next year, figures that because the car is designed to use existing auto components, it could be mass-produced at a cost of $1,600. HUD ultimately envisions an urban transportation concept under which commuters would pay a fee to join a vast minicar pool, get to and from work in cars kept at central lots, which during the working day would supply idle cars to other pool members...