Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enlightened Self-Interest. Founded last January as an outgrowth of Urban America Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of city problems, the Urban Coalition meets the need for a concerted effort on the part of all the institutions and individuals most concerned with the city...
...problem is too vast and complex to be resolved by any one sector," he said. "The failure to move on urban problems is not only socially disastrous but also economically unsound. Each year of delay in funding programs will inexorably require enormously greater expenditures in the future." Added Pittsburgh's Mayor Joseph Barr: "Regrettably, it took a national calamity to provide the urgency and concern which makes this meeting possible...
Turn Around. By bringing the resources-both monetary and managerial -of the private sector to bear on the plight of the cities, the Urban Coalition answers demands raised by such disparate political figures as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy and Illinois' Republican Charles Percy, both of whom have urged far greater participation of industry in meeting the cities' needs. As the London Economist noted last week, "If Litton Industries can work out a scheme for economic development in Greece...
Watts?" Litton President Roy Ash, a member of the Coalition, could hardly disagree. Said the Urban League's Whitney Young: "The people gathered in this room can turn the country around...
...program outlined by the Urban Coalition (see box opposite) provides cogent answers to the cities' most immediate problems. For the long term, it calls for a reexamination of the nation's priorities and interests. However difficult that may be, no attempt to alleviate the social despair and economic disparities of U.S. cities can succeed until all Americans are willing to search their hearts, consciences and pocketbooks. The Urban Coalition may well have given that effort its initial impetus...