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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern of residential distribution by family type is entirely voluntary, deliberate and rational. It is hard to find any sound reason for the fashionable outcry 'to bring the middle-class family back into the city.' " In part, the suburban exodus reflects Americans' deep-seated anti-urban sentiment, the puritanical belief, in Poet William Cowper's words, that "God made the country, man made the town" (to which City Lover Oliver Wendell Holmes memorably retorted: "God made the cavern and man made the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Hope for the Heart | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...Nice People's Escape." Why did they go? In his 1964 book, The Urban Complex, Robert Weaver reasoned: "It is an escape from changing neighborhoods, lower-class encroachment, inadequate public services and inferior schools. It is running away from the ugly facts of urban life; facts that have always existed, but never for long on the doorstep of 'nice people' who had the option of escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Hope for the Heart | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Sledgehammer Surgery. Within the central city, the bulldozer has generally been used to better advantage. The federally subsidized ($4.7 billion since 1949) urban renewal program, also administered by Weaver, aims to do peacefully for the U.S. what World War II bombs did for Europe: to clear decaying downtown areas for new inner cities. The physical monuments to such sledgehammer surgery are many, and many are distinguished; Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Philadelphia's Independence Mall, Pittsburgh's Gateway Center, Detroit's Lafayette Square, St. Louis' Plaza Redevelopment, Hartford's Constitution Plaza. Urban renewal has worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Hope for the Heart | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

City-Bred Muscle. This and most other urban problems seem almost trivial in comparison with those created by the changing race structure. Says Economist Miles Colean: "We can't get around the sad fact that middle-class families living in the city who depend on public schools have not made up their minds that they can live with Negroes." Weaver adds pointedly: "We need an open suburbia-not just an upper-and middle-income-class suburbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Hope for the Heart | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...entire white population, San Diego 15.4% , Newark 23.7% . Violence on the scale of the Watts and Harlem riots has so far been rare-partly because the heavy concentration of Negroes in Northern cities has given them powerful new political muscle. "If he hadn't been urbanized, the Negro wouldn't have become a political factor and thus able to change his status," says Weaver. "The 'Negro Revolt' is an urban phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Hope for the Heart | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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