Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlesinger co-edited The History of American Life, a highly influential series of studies in social history that appeared between 1927 and 1944. His own contribution to the series, The Rise of the City, stimulated new interest in the study of urban history...
...governor's appearance capped a day-long Republican Issue Forum sponsored by the Young Republican Club featuring panels and speeches on civil rights, urban affairs, the poverty program and Vietnam...
Today's agenda begins with an urban affairs panel from 10:45 a.m. to noon in Burr Hall A. From 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., there will be a discussion of Vietnam in Emerson 210, followed by a panel on the poverty program and civil rights led by Congressman Arch A. Moore Jr. (R-W. Va.) in the same room...
...URBAN AFFAIRS. A $7.8 billion housing program aims to meet such varied needs as urban renewal, campus dwellings for college students, and 60,000 more public-housing units. Congress went further and created the first new Cabinet post in twelve years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which amalgamates a batch of existing bureaus within a single agency devoted to the problems of the cities, where 70% of all Americans now live...
...demand for people who are trying to understand them," explains Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons. Another reason, says Riesman, is that "the bloom of psychoanalysis is off"; people's problems often have to be related to conditions that lie beyond their family situations. The new drives against poverty, urban blight and crime have also increased the demand for sociologists who, as George Washington University Vice President Jack Brown says, "want to get out in the field and get their hands dirty rather than just talk about social problems...