Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban land grows ever scarcer and more expensive, planners are increasingly turning their eyes skyward to the unused space overhead. And when they survey the city, the airspace that stands out most is that over open railroad tracks and highways...
...career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
...start has already been made toward tapping this new urban dimension. In Boston, the Prudential Center is built on top of the Massachusetts Turnpike. In Manhattan, four high-rise apartment buildings have straddled the approaches to the George Washington Bridge since 1963. Chicago's 41-story Prudential Building rose over the Illinois Central tracks just east of Michigan Avenue nearly twelve years ago, and only last month, the last legal obstacles were removed from plans to construct $1 billion worth of apartments and office buildings over 188 acres of Illinois Central track and switching yard near Chicago...
Helping a country sidestep revolution, building a new nation, promoting world peace--these are large achievements. Few activities of the Peace Corps seem to merit such grandiose description. In the Dominican Republic, volunteers in urban-development projects are organizing neighborhood clinics or helping to obtain piped water for a barrio; those in rural-community development are setting up agrarian leagues and advising on local school construction...
...have done badly, despite official obstacles. Unwilling to risk living in Morocco after it won independence from France in 1956, some 5,500 Jews emigrated to Spain, live quietly as members of the business and professional class. Spain's Protestants are largely native-born Spaniards of working-class, urban background whose ancestors picked up the faith by way of foreign missionaries allowed in Spain for a few years in the late 19th century. Aggressive and evangelical, Spain's Protestants have increased in numbers from 5,000 in 1945 to 30,000 today; the number of their private worship...