Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worried about land speculation and uncontrolled growth around the Kennedy Library, a number of city planners and Cambridge civic leaders are informally suggesting the creation of an urban renewal project in the vicinity of the Library...
...Under urban renewal, they believe that Cambridge, through its Redevelopment Authority, would be able to control new construction in two basic ways: first, it would have to approve any new development within the area; and second, using federal money, the Redevelopment Authority could sell land at below-market costs...
...urban renewal idea has been discussed informally by the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC)-a private group that advises the City on urban renewal-and the Cambridge Planning Board. The proposal has not yet been studied in detail, however, and most observers, including its partisans, see a large number of problems...
...People in Roxbury look around them. What do they see? They see urban renewal, crime and violence, the police and the unemployed, the new community centers, and the parades of acronyms (ABCD, BRA, OEO, etc.), and they are confused." No one explains these programs to them. Crucial meetings and decisions go by while the people they most effect know nothing about them. To the outside world this looks like apathy but, says Miller, "If I didn't believe the theory of Negro apathy was unequivocally wrong, I wouldn't be here. I have no doubt the Negro community will respond...
...press representation and coverage is so vitally important, Miller says. If the population is not to slip into the ignorance that brings frustration on the inside, and charges of apathy from the outside, there must be good communication. Boston, with its suburbs, has the money and the plans for urban renewal; it has the interested liberals; and it also has a Negro population of workable size. Miller for one, would not like to see Boston fail to solve the problem of the Negro in the city. The republication of his Bay State Banner starting last Saturday, brings Boston one step...