Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem: "The President has no guns." A year ago, this was not the case. The "constitutionalist" revolution of April, 1965 gave the Dominican people their first, and perhaps their last, chance to break out of the political prison constructed for them by Trujillo and his heirs. The urban populace--in Santo Domingo and Santiago and San Francisco--armed itself, split and then defeated the military, and came within hours of constructing a new ruling coalition: liberal lawyers and professors, progressive businessmen, small peasants, students, and workers...
...levels, still come with more strings than a troupe of marionettes, leaving no room for needed diversity and thereby threatening both the initiative and independence of the states. "The Federal Government earmarks grants for specific purposes," says James Q. Wilson, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. "In many cases, those purposes are irrelevant to the real needs of the cities and states." Washington's insistence that the states set up a separate agency to administer each of its grant-in-aid programs-of which there are now 233, compared with only...
...William Scranton, Vermont's Philip Hoff, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, California's Pat Brown. New York has just enacted its own program for rehabilitating narcotics addicts, and last fall launched a $1 billion water-pollution-control program. Pennsylvania and New Jersey have launched ambitious programs for urban parks. California encourages communities to organize local mental-health facilities, now has centers in half its counties. But by far the most important role for the states under the new federalism is to serve, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, as "the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns." Washington...
...example, could play an important role in coordinating the overlapping needs of city and suburb in such areas as sanitation and law enforcement, but most of them are restricted to routine housekeeping chores by jealous state legislatures. Local governments should be feeding ideas to their state capitals on urban-renewal and welfare programs, but city halls have been ignored for so long that few bother to do so. Half of the states go so far as to deny home rule to their cities, an absurdity that forces Chicago to ask Springfield for everything down to the right to license peanut...
...Second, urban renewal has not been popular in Cambridge, and proposing a project might arouse political opposition...