Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard officials feel that professorships are necessary to attract first-rate people in urban studies, and that these people are essential for long-term work and for attracting research money. Pusey said yesterday. "It is important to recognize the board problems involved and the need for continuity in research. New professorships are a more primary way to develop studies in a field than are short-term research grants...
Moynihan felt that new professorships may help provide a "critical mass," where enough people from different disciplines gather in one community to look at the same urban problems and to reinforce each other with their different backgrounds. "The distinctive quality of urban studies is that they call on disciplines spread throughout the departments and professional schools of a modern university," he said. "In the case of Harvard and M.I.T., they require not only a high degree of interdisciplinary work, but also a very great deal of interuniversity cooperation...
Harvard already has considerable urban programs in the faculties that will receive the new chairs and also in the graduate schools of Business, Medicine, Divinity, and Public Health...
...dramatic rebirth of New York's parks, three men have played key roles. John Lindsay had the vision to understand the role that parks play in an urban society. Thomas Hoving, his first Parks Commissioner, now director of the Metropolitan Museum, has the genius to translate Lindsay's vision into spectacular "happenings" that reoriented the attitudes of an entire city toward its parks. And August Heckscher, the present commissioner, is expanding on Hoving's work and creating a structure that will make it endure...
...seven different shows, the Festival brought together entertainers who dramatized the cultural heritage of Harlem. An evenings of soul music, one of sports, another of clothes design and modeling -- to make the people of Harlem aware of their own sharp identity within this blurred and sprawling context of urban life...