Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience then took over the meeting. They tried to pin him down on such issues as the state sales tax, party unity, the Massachusetts Crime Commission, federal aid to urban areas, corruption, and the integration of Boston's public schools...
...Donnell said that he thought that the state should play a larger role in financing programs for health, education, welfare, transportation, housing and urban planning. Mayor Collins of Boston has recently stated that cities must become increasingly dependent on the federal government for money and planning...
Collins cited both a revised Federal program of taxation and a plan like the President's recently announced Demonstration Cities Program as possible steps toward urban improvement...
...Demonstration Cities Program calls for the selection of 35 or 40 cities throughout the nation as common recipients of $5 million for the initial planning of urban renewal. Over $2 billion will then be made available by June 1966 for an action program in the selected cities...
...Harvard M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies," asserted Collins, "would confine its thought processes to improving the situation in Boston alone for twelve months, we might see some tangible results of the potential of the universities" in urban renewal...