Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following is an excerpt from a statement presented by Daniel P. Moynihan, Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, to Senator Abraham Ribicoff's subcommittee on executive reorganization. Ribicoff called Moynihan's plan for an Office of Legislative Evaluation one of "the most significant ideas" to come before the committee and said he would introduce it in legislation this January...
...assume that the problem of objective evaluation of urban programs must become even greater now that the Federal government is moving beyond its original concern to improve the physical equipment of cities towards an effort to improve the human beings who live in them. No one need be told that people are harder to rehabilitate than buildings, though we begin to learn that the process is expensive and frustrating in buildings as well. More to the point, most of the high yield social interventions in the lives of urban populations have already taken place. (Birth control programs for the poor...
...relatively new idea in urban developments, the 'leased housing' project would accommodate families earning anywhere from $5700 for an individual to $10,600 for a family with seven (or more) members. It will house 350 families...
...Cambridge Corporation would like to have the development declared an Urban Renewal project, which will guarantee minimal costs in acquiring the land...
...malapportioned, rural-dominated state governments. The Court has already thrown out Georgia's county unit system, which assigned counties of wildly disproportionate population the same weight in deciding a state-wide election, and effectively gave the state's farm areas many times the political power of the more populous urban centers...