Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.C.L.A. has consciously tried to put its intellectual resources at the service of the community in which it lives. One experiment in this direction is a new urban studies center, at which scholars of different disciplines are teaming to help solve some basic problems of the Los Angeles megalopolis, such as the best way to integrate public and private welfare services in Watts. As a cultural catalyst, U.C.L.A. last year drew 500,000 Angelenos to concerts, lectures and stage performances on campus. At the same time, its centers of African, Near Eastern and Latin American studies have drawn international acclaim...
Because of their shorter range and limited rate of acceleration, the new electric autos will probably be restricted to brief low-speed trips in metropolitan areas-where they are actually needed most to cut down on smog and street noise. For high-speed urban expressways and intercity highways, a Ford spokesman readily concedes, the more muscular internal-combustion engine "will be the most practical form of power for some time to come...
...second place -- nearly 300 students behind -- is Government 146, "Urban Policy Problems," taught by Edward O. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government. Banfield, who was on a sabbatical last year, is probably giving the course for the last time...
...Edward Banfield's treatment of urban problems and the second largest course in the College, spawned a counter-course last night...
...possible solution, already under consideration by City officials, would be to create an urban renewal district around the Library site. The City, through its Redevelopment Authority, would then have to approve all new construction with the urban renewal area. But the success of the renewal scheme depends not only on the strength of the plan worked out by the City but also the amount of support it commands within the community -- the Library Corporation, local businessmen and residents, and the University. In Cambridge, such plans are often worked out in a vacuum; private interests stand aloof and, when the plan...