Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Joint Center for Urban Studies was established in 1959, Harvard and M.I.T. expected it to concentrate on "armchair observation" of urban policy and problems. In recent years, however, there has been a growing recognition of the need to take a more active role in the city...
Misinformation & Fear. Strong emphasis would be placed on education to counter what Johnson called "a cloud of misinformation and unarticulated fear" about the effects of open-housing legislation. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development would be directed to exhaust every means of conciliation before taking a case to court. Other civil rights proposals, which by themselves would meet with general approval in Congress, would guarantee fair selection of Southern juries, give greater federal protection to civil rights workers, and broaden the authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Most of the nation's ecumenical parishes have been organized in order to serve poverty-plagued urban slum neighborhoods, where shrinking financial resources often make it difficult to maintain separate churches. A case in point is the nation's first joint Protestant-Roman Catholic church, St. Mark's in Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, July 22), which serves a largely Negro district of 15,000. Staffed by a Catholic priest and three Protestant ministers (Episcopal, United Presbyterian and United Church of Christ), St. Mark's will break ground in May for its new building; the parish will...
...summer, construction will take six to eight years, require 9,000 man-years of labor, create enough office space (2,800,000 sq. ft.) for 15,000 employees. The 81-acre plot, long the ramshackle home of the city's wholesale produce market, will soon be cleared by urban renewal. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency sold the land for a bargain $11.5 million, but the city expects a $3,000,000-a-year bonanza in realty taxes, plus increased convention and tourist trade. Says Redevelopment Director M. Justin Herman: "We held out to find one buyer...
...Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies will participate in a year-long study of the arts in Boston...