Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight against urban renewal in North Harvard has been an exercise in frustration. A suit in the Suffolk County Superior Court to question the constitutionality of the convictions was dismissed last summer. All six of those who received the first eviction notices have been evicted or have left...
Conection (Visual Arts at Harvard) has come of age as a Harvard magazine. Its current issue on urban design is well-written, attractive, and consistently interesting to an architectural layman. Happily, it does not attempt to blanket the problem of urban decline and sprawl. It does offer differing points of view on specific problems...
...whole systems of buildings all at once, from civic centers to new cities. This calls for complex planning of functional interactions, social effects, and visual variety. Architecture schools which used to spawn endless distortions of Salisbury Cathedral and the Parthenon are now desparately seeking a more rigorous approach to urban design...
...Rome be built in a day? VAC official Eduard Sekler notes that all the existing masterpieces of urban design have evolved over a period of centuries, and before the advent of the elevator. Harvard Professor Willo von Moltke demonstrates, however, that Sekler's chief criteria--proportion, symbolic placement of essential buildings, "visual continuity," and reasonable traffic flow--can be employed in designing a new city (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela). Both articles are effectively illustrated...
...magazine begins with a plea, from a symposium of planners, social scientists, and government officials, for the formation of a new scholarly discipline of urban studies. Russell Lynes' piece on the mobility of American families and an article called "Corridor Development" both suggest profitable lines of research, as, indeed, does the entire issue...