Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concede that the common good requires an uncommon standard of taste and expenditure for the physical appointments of government and of the public places of the city. Even those most vocal in support of governmnt support for the arts will resist, even reject the manifest fact that architecture and urban planning are the two arts which government by definition must be involved in, for better or for worse...
This is not a matter of oversight, but of conviction and it has never been more manifest than in recent months when, in response to what is generally known as the urban crisis, some of the best and most generous minds in public life have responded with proposals to build more factories in the slums, and the respected and revered Episcopal bishop of New York announces that as a gesture towards the poor, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine will not be finished in our time. This is appalling. Three summers of rioting and out goes fifty years...
...scrutinized by liberals who have become disillusioned with some of their own panaceas. Many agree with Buckley that initiative in social progress lies as much with local government as with federal. Like him, they are unhappy with the massive dislocations caused by such federal superprograms as highway construction and urban renewal. When Bobby Kennedy recently urged private industry to help rebuild the ghettos, Buckley congratulated him for a "statement so sensible that it made recommendations I made three years ago." Buckley, in fact, is a bit chagrined that it is liberal Democrats and not conservative Republicans who have been making...
After two years of research, the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week reported that urban dwellers paid more to live "moderately" in 1966 than they did to enjoy a "modest but adequate" existence in 1959. Exactly how much more they paid was lost in weighted statistics and educated guesses, but the B.L.S. figures indicated that it was really a great deal more...
...them, based on what it costs to live "moderately" in some 40 U.S. cities. In the high-priced area of New York-Northeastern New Jersey, for example, it amounted to $10,195 annually, against $5,970 seven years ago. On a national average, the budget for B.L.S.'s urban family of four increased from $6,098 in 1959 to $9,191 in 1966. Trouble is, in 1959 B.L.S. assumed for statistical purposes that its mythical families rented their housing-while 75% were said to own their homes in 1966. Without any home-owning facts or figures from 1959, drawing...