Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some University and city officials are clearly worried that the response to the Library will have unsettling effects on the Square: they forsee uncoordinated and unsightly commercial development that would detract from the 'Memorial' aspect of the Library. To control development, urban renewal has been suggested. Thus far, the idea has been discussed by the city officials, but nothing official has been proposed. The questions raised by the Library complex are serious ones that fundamentally affect the University environment. The issues of development crystalized this year; the course of development will loom large through the next decade...
...Daisaku Ikeda, 38, Komeito attracts the new Japanese: city dwellers who have lost contact with the ward-oriented politics of their rural home towns. Komeito calls for a cleanup in the wheeling and dealing typical of Asian government. Since Japan is fated, for better or worse, to a continuing urban growth and a growing urban malaise, it is mass parties of the Komeito brand that will doubtless dictate Japan's political future...
...Rochester, Sheen demonstrated his concern for local poverty by naming the Rev. David Finks, 36, as his "vicar for the urban ministry" in charge of slum problems. Finks has been closely allied with a local Negro protest organization set up by that professional agitator, Saul Alinsky. The group has been demanding that the Eastman Kodak Co. hire 600 Negroes from poverty areas. Despite his appointment of Finks, Sheen has refused to take sides in the quarrel-but he has pointedly urged city business leaders to provide more jobs for the city's Negro ghetto...
...imbalance" was the cause. As the rate of illegitimate births among teen-agers continues to rise despite the easy availability of contraceptives, school officials are coming to realize that dismissal from class is neither a humane nor a sensible solution to the problems of pregnant girls. More and more urban school systems are setting up educational centers where the girls can keep up their regular classwork while they are preparing for motherhood...
...Cambridge City administration was strongly urged last night to move swiftly towards adopting an urban renewal program for the Harvard Square area...