Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architecture building, a multilevel, polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways, the new Chicago Circle campus is a growing monument that acquires its expansive scale naturally from its monumental task-the education of new generations in the heart of urban society...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Assistant Secretary of Labor, is being considered by the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and M.I.T., for appointment as its next director. The term of the Center's present director, James Q. Wilson, expires at the end of the academic year...
...Center was established to encourage and support the study of urban problems of all kinds. It brings together scholars from a wide variety of fields including law, political science, economics, city planning and architecture, to concentrate upon the study of urban society...
...Center enables interested faculty members from Harvard and M.I.T. to organize urban studies by reimburaing the University for the time that the faculty spends away from their academic duties...
Besides supporting studies, the Center has been able to act in an advisory capacity for urban development. In 1961 the Center was asked to aid in the planning and development of a new city, Cludad Quayana, in what had been one of the least settled areas of Venezuela...