Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...89th was the first Congress to address itself-in its legislative thrust as well as its membership-to the U.S. as a nation of city dwellers. Largely concerned with "the real dynamics of urban life," in President Johnson's phrase, it marched against the problems of slum housing, overcrowded streets, underemployed minorities, inadequate schools, polluted air and water, rising crime, complicated tax structures and shrinking recreational facilities. And it produced its prodigious array of social and economic legislation in spite of the tension and upheaval caused by a costly war. Indeed, the 89th went further than any other...
...Illinois, the first week's results of a Chicago Sun-Times straw poll in urban, rural and suburban areas gave Chuck Percy a surprisingly large lead-58.5% to 41.5%-over Paul Douglas...
HOUSING. Getting good housing is perhaps the most difficult hurdle of all for most Negroes. One tragedy is that urban renewal often means Negro removal-replacing shacks with vertical ghettos for middle-income Negroes and forcing lower-income Negroes to move to even meaner slums. Because the Negro urban population has almost doubled since 1950, the ghettos are spreading. Negroes now constitute 27% of the population in Chicago, 37% in St. Louis, 39% in Detroit, 40% in Birmingham, 41% in New Orleans and Baltimore, 24% in Norfolk and 63% in Washington. Worried about being surrounded by Negroes, most whites flee...
...ground is broken for a project. The subcommittee should not miss the chance to force these reforms upon the FHA. Nor should the Senators neglect to hold the agency to the spirit of the law by financing only low-rent housing that can have a legitimate effect on urban slums...
Under Environmental Studies, however, Szabo hopes to offer a "liberal arts program in visual perception," which would give students the foundation for work in urban planning, regional planning light and communications, or visual competition, as well as in architecture...