Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dozen-or a Hundred. Johnson's most ambitious idea would create a "demonstration cities program" to be administered by the new Housing and Urban Development Department. Under this scheme, a city applying for federal aid would select a single blighted neighborhood and submit an overall plan for its rejuvenation. The project would include housing for different income groups and the public health, education, recreation, welfare and transportation services necessary to "change the total environment...
Beyond those guidelines, it would be up to city officials to determine precisely what to build. Said Johnson: "Let there be experiment with a dozen approaches, or a hundred." Previous federal assistance efforts under the Urban Renewal and Public Housing agencies, now part of HUD, have tended to be spotty and so vulnerable to bureaucratic snarls that they have created almost as many problems as they solved. To avoid these pitfalls, the new plan demands concentration on a single showcase area if a city wishes to qualify for federal aid. It sets 14 criteria to assure that initial goals...
...initially to help underwrite planning for the 60 to 70 cities expected to take part. After that, he estimated, the program would cost $2.3 billion in its first six years, adding $400 million to the $691 million a year in federal money now being spent in 800 cities for urban renewal and public housing...
Marriage of Convenience. Both the urban and rural plans incorporate the Johnson Administration's concept of "creative federalism." It concedes in essence that the problems of America today demand more than ever a marriage of national and local government. Washington does not have the brainpower or even the manpower to resolve all the problems of local communities, while metropolis and hamlet alike lack the money and the political framework for collective action to overcome their own difficulties. Thus, as Lyndon Johnson has put it, "the Federal Government can assist and encourage-but in the last analysis, the success...
...addition, Missouri changed from a school that had largely served agricultural interests into a many-faceted science-conscious institution trying to meet the needs of the state's urban growth. It took over the impoverished private University of Kansas City in 1963, made it a coequal university campus with schools of dentistry, pharmacy and music. It elevated a St. Louis junior college to similar status, will convert it to a four-year curriculum this fall. Another campus in Rolla, which is about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis in the Ozarks, was created out of a school of mines...