Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strategy Against Poverty instead). But if the President was not about to charge ahead with vast new schemes, neither was he ready to retrench. He promised more federal aid to rural areas, where 43% of the nation's poor live, requested $1 billion for Community Action programs in urban areas, asked for $135 million to extend the preschool Operation Head Start through the first and second grades...
...violent felonies of rapists and murderers. By any standard of measurement, the statistics are staggering, and their impact can be felt at every level of American life. One boy in every six will turn up in a juvenile court for a nontraffic offense before he is 18. In some urban areas, nearly half of all the residents stay off the streets at night for fear of attack, a third have grown too cautious to speak to strangers, a fifth have become so terrified that they would prefer to move out of their present neighborhoods. More and more people report that...
Speaking in a Design School series on urban problems, Pettigrew said the only remedy to segregation is the creation of "educational parks" -- school complexes outside urban areas serving both city and suburban students...
Several CLAO participants have combined their field observations with legal research for term papers in a seminar on Urban Legal Studies given by Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law. Yarmolinsky is presently planning an Urban Studies Workshop program for next year. A small group of selected third-year students will work on original urban problems offered by community agencies...
...School's continuing support of CLAO indicates the school's determination to break with its passive past and take an active interest in the problems of the urban poor. As the program matures, however, it should draw closer to the neighborhood and further from the school, for a real foothold in the neighborhood is CLAO's best insurance against future crises