Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inner Belt. If the highway were built there, according to the Planning Board's reasoning, large numbers of heavy trucks bound for the industrial area in Eastern Cambridge would have to travel through city streets, causing both congestion and noise. Moreover, the city wanted to embark on an ambitious urban renewal program, and it needed to have the highway's location fixed so it could plan the renewal projects around the road...
...both problems was to move the highway East of Central Square. This is precisely what the Planning Board's consultants recommended; they endorsed--and the Board followed suit--a route along Brookline and Elm Sts., saying in part: "It passes directly through blighted and deteriorated areas in need of urban renewal and redevelopment." There were other reasons too. By locating a route just East of Central Square (in reality, through the heart of the business district), the highway would bring business to the area and make "possible the rebirth of Central Square in terms of retail and office building development...
...ambitious neighborhood urban renewal program Cambridge planned was killed in a bitter political battle because the people in the project areas vehemently opposed the plans. Similarly, people in the path of the highway didn't want the Belt through their homes. When, in 1965, a group of young planners joined the fight against Brookline-Elm, the neighborhood described in 1957 as "deteriorating" and "in need of urban renewal" was pictured in much different terms...
DeGuglielmo took the action at the request of the Citizens Advisory Committee, a semi-autonomous consulting group composed of Cambridge business, institutional, and professional leaders. The CAC, which includes President Pusey and Howard Johnson, president of M.I.T., is considering recommending an urban renewal project for the entire area...
DeGuglielmo has said that his administration is seriously considering urban renewal for the Square. When the CAC was appointed last winter, McLaughlin emphasized in his inaugural address the renewal of Harvard Square...