Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handle new projects for the City -- he similarly rejected. He said he had been intimately involved with the planned NASA elec- tronics laboratory in Kendall Square, and that he was adequately prepared to meet other items mentioned by the Council: the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, the Wellington-Harrington urban renewal project in East Cambridge, and the proposed Inner Belt highway...
Walter F. Bogner, professor of Architecture, is assisting the city of San Francisco in its planning for urban redevelopment. Bogner is design consultant for the San Francisco planning commission's Iowntown zoning study...
...more skilled workers than it has today, double the increase of the 18 years from 1947 to 1964. Nonetheless, Negroes are almost totally excluded from high-paying craft unions. "The majority of the 1,500,000 Negroes who hold union cards," says Whitney Young, Director of the National Urban League, "have tickets to do the hardest, dirtiest and most menial jobs that industry requires...
...Power and the Glory, it was the Mexican jail cell that swallowed up the whisky priest. In A Burnt-Out Case, it was the jungle leper colony that drew Querry, the architect who has lost the very capacity to feel. In Brighton Rock, it was that violent urban netherworld where hopelessness is almost a beatitude...
...feeling about islands is not normal," confesses Author Russell, who was born on an island-New Zealand's South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose...