Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...items as Social Security and railroad-retirement payments. Katzenbach somehow managed to include in his sum federal grants for agricultural-experiment stations, commercial fisheries, and the systematization of weights and measures. Schultze was a more scrupulous bookkeeper, but even his more modest reckoning includes $2.1 billion for construction of urban expressways, which hardly help and often visibly harm the poor whose neighborhoods lie in their path. Proposals for two interstate highways that would displace 20,000 of Newark's Negroes were among the most serious grievances of slum dwellers before last month's disastrous riots in that city...
...says, "that there's no real way to monitor them and tell what they're doing. So we end up dribbling money into this or that, funding a program for a year or two, then dropping it." Daniel Moynihan, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, uses the axiom: "The more programs, the less impact." Coordination is almost as sorely needed as money if federal efforts are to succeed-and both, so far, have been in short supply...
...candid camera also documented another strange facet of British urban life. Housewives were shown letting strange men into their homes who were wearing only milk-bottle tops as badges. Phony TV repairmen were admitted by women who did not even have sets. Interviewed later, the same women all insisted that they were very cautious about strangers-until they saw themselves on telltale film...
...large, artists have tried to solve the problem by moving into old industrial lofts. But living there often meant breaking the city's fire and non-occupancy laws or entailed the double cost of maintaining separate living and studio quarters. And with urban renewal, even lofts are becoming a rarity. Last week a spate of new projects, all aimed at alleviating their housing problem, convinced artists that their pleas for help might at last be beginning to register...
...hotels on New York's Bowery (where artists have traditionally hobnobbed with derelicts) began renovating one of them, the Alabama, into studio housing, eventually may follow suit with others. And in Brooklyn Heights, the city has decided to include a low-cost studio cooperative for artists in its urban-renewal plans...