Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban sophistication, the most cogent economic fact of Canada today is the push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...
...nation is in agreement that its slums must be eliminated, but most solutions to the problem have been be clouded by a deep philosophical and economic schism between the adherents of private redevelopment and those who advocate publicly financed urban renewal. Last week Illinois Freshman Senator Chuck Percy introduced a housing bill that would combine both approaches and, in addition, give the slum dweller a stake in his own environment...
...scathing assault from HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, who blasted it as "totally unsupported by any factual analyses as to the kind and amount of subsidy that would be required for workable home ownership by poor families." Weaver's nine-page critique seemed to reflect a possessiveness about the urban problems that no federal program has yet begun to solve...
...recent period in Federal Reserve records. Eastern investors who demanded a 6.6% and 6.7% return on their money last fall are now snapping up loans at 6%, and a few of them are willing to take as little as 5.9%, according to mortgage brokers. As a result, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver told Congress last week that the Federal Housing Administration may cut the 6% rate that it now charges on home loans "if the trend continues." But Weaver added: "I wouldn't say when...
Thomas P. F. Hoving, former N.Y. Parks Commissioner and Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will speak on "The Design of Politics and the Politics of Design" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. His speech begins Harvard's 11th annual-Urban Design Conference...