Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Issues. Universities are answering those calls in two ways. They are creating new interdisciplinary departments for the academic investigation of urban problems, and they are setting up field agencies that plunge into practical action to help ease those problems. The two usually mesh...
...University of Chicago's Center for Urban Studies, an eleven-man faculty headed by Sociologist Philip Hauser is studying, among other things, the effect of urban renewal on small businesses, probing the finances of public housing to see if the money is most efficiently used. A Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, created with Ford Foundation funds by former M.I.T. President Julius Stratton and former Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy -who, coincidentally, now hold the two top jobs at the Ford Foundation-advises a metropolitan council embracing 78 towns and cities. It gets so many requests for help...
U.C.L.A.'s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, now five years old, is studying the feasibility of subways for freeway-clogged Los Angeles, electric cars to ease smog. It also set up an "urban observatory" two days after the Watts riots to probe the causes of the violence. The University of California's Berkeley campus counts more than 400 community projects, many of them aimed at improving the education...
...controversial new concept in urban planning gained a foothold in Boston last night when Edward J. Logue, the powerful director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority signed a "memorandum of understanding" with a citizens group in Roxbury...
Standing in the background at yesterday's ceremonies at the Whittier St. branch of the Shaw Settlement House was a small group of planning professionals, mostly Harvard, M.I.T., and Brandeis faculty members, and have banded together as an organization called Urban Planning...