Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies has received $1.4 million from the Ford Foundation. The grant, which will extend over a period of seven years, continues the financial support that the Foundation has provided since the establishment of the Center...
After three years of guerilla-like warfare against the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the residents of the North Harvard urban renewal site have succeeded in changing the renewal plan for their neighborhood from complete demolition to substantial rehabilitation...
...were razed, a presentation of the resident's case by Homans in October apparently convinced them that there was some justice to the neighborhood's complaints. Homans showed the panel a plan for the area drawn up by Chester W. Hartman '57, a member of the Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...whole, writers for the stage performed more poorly than writers for the page. Despite some hopeful regional attempts at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the Arena Stage in Washington, American theater is irrevocably centered in Manhattan. And Broadway continued to be beset by urban blight. Part of what was wrong was the audience itself-too old, too prosperous, too complacent to be bothered about the basics of the human dilemma. These playgoers and, to a degree, the daily New York critics who reflect their likes and dislikes, demand beddy-bye stories for grownups-the Theater of Reassurance. This...
Chicago's poor are waging a bitter offensive against Daley, who has maintained iron control over the $21 million that the city has received so far. Daley's 75-member Committee on Urban Opportunity (chairman: Richard Daley) is securely ballasted in favor of city hall. Last week, presiding over a banquet celebrating the first anniversary of his anti-poverty board, the mayor grandly ignored pickets from the Woodlawn Organization, a militant neighborhood action group, parading outside to protest its exclusion from the parent body. To charges that wardheelers dominate his program, Daley retorted: "What's wrong with...