Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preplanned cities have many advantages over old urban centers that were built little by little with almost no regard to coordination. In preplanned cities, industrial and residential sectors are separate. Comprehensive transportation system eliminate traffic congestion and waster treatment systems prevent air and water pollution. New towns usually have better recreational and cultural facilities than old cities of comparable size. They lure large industrial firms that provide the city with adequate tax revenue. By attracting white-collar and blue-collar industries and building homes for a variety of income levels, new cities could achieve a balanced social and racial population...
Still, the preplanned city is one of the most imaginative solutions to the age-old urban problems of congestion and coordination. The Government for years has been underwriting the expansion of old urban centers, thus helping to create one racially and socially segregated suburb after another. With the population of the United States still growing rapidly, Federal financing of new towns--either with FHA-insured mortgages or direct construction subsidies--is becoming a more and more attractive alternative...
Cavanagh, speaking at a Harvard CRIMSON-WHRB interview, said that the lack of low-cost urban housing would "develop over the next six months into the most crucial (domestic) problem...
Conferences with graduate and undergraduate seminars in urban politics as well as the usual round of informal meetings occupied most of Mayor Cavanagh's first day in Cambridge. He will be here through tomorrow...
Cavanaugh's agenda begins with a 10 a.m. discussion of urban politics with students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the John F. Kennedy School of Government...