Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ugliness Is Bitterness." Last week the national face-lifting drive moved into even higher gear when 844 carefully selected delegates-including architects, urban-renewal experts, businessmen, Government leaders, conservationists-crowded into a Washington building auditorium for a White House Conference on Natural Beauty. Lady Bird, opening the affair, said: "Ugliness is bitterness, an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try and change that." Laurance Rockefeller, conference chairman, briskly told the conferees: "Our task is to produce specific ideas and come up with solutions...
Among the 1,000 or so conservationists, urban renewers, landscape design ers, architects, doers of good and viewers with alarm who met in Washington last week for the White House Conference on Natural Beauty (see THE NATION) was Mrs. Mary Lasker, 65, whose qualifications as beautifier are beyond dispute. Among other things, Mary Las ker is a devoted philanthropist and sup porter of Democratic Party causes, and a warm friend of President Johnson's at whose side she sat last month at a' Waldorf dinner for party contributors. New Yorkers know her best as the city...
...city planners--including William W. Nash Jr., chairman of Harvard's Department of City and Regional Planning--appealed Friday to Boston Mayor John F. Collins for an overhaul of the North Harvard urban renewal project...
Residents of the area have vocifer ously opposed the project since its inception, and last winter leaders of the anti-renewal war vowed that they would resist eviction bodily. Anti-renewal signs reading "To Hell with Urban Renewal" and "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Homeless" are posted on many of the homes...
...sell the world's largest pop painting, by James Rosenquist, and exhibited the world's noisiest contempo rary sculpture, by Robert Rauschenberg. What do the two have to do with each other? To hear the artists tell it, both are simply expressions of today's urban landscape...