Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Announced the establishment of a special Center for Community Planning designed to link the frequently fragmented efforts of HEW and other departments such as Housing and Urban Development "in a total program for human betterment" in U.S. cities...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies were among sixteen prominent citizens named to help formulate Democratic party policy...
...group will research such areas as medical care, mental health, education, urban renewal, transportation, welfare and pollution, Kennedy said...
Cambridge officials have talked informally about urban renewal in the Harvard-Brattle area. But the project doesn't seem to have moved very far. Using renewal the City could control demands put on real estate: the men with the biggest pocket books would not be able to decide unilaterally what should be built in the Square and how it should look...
Unfortunately, the longer the urban renewal concept remains domant, the more difficult it will be to implement it in the future. Real estate dealers and potential investors won't wait until the City is ready to introduce the idea. They will try to purchase the most desirable spots in the Square and, in some cases, begin to plan new buildings. The more of them there are, the more pressure will be put on the City Council to either reject urban renewal or reduce its scope. And even if a plan is eventually passed, it could be distorted when...