Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also the new YMCA on a large site, allowed through urban renewal to expand out of a storefront...
...becoming visible in Government Center and Washington Park today. These planned projects may never rise. The tender shoots of the New Boston grow as much from external climate as internal genes. Lately hot gases have been blowing across the river from Charlestown and Cambridge onto Boston's tender urban renewal garden. William Weismantel Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Urban Planner (part-time) with Boston Redevelopment Authority
Rock 'n' roll lyrics have lately taken on urban socioeconomic themes. In the Crystals' Uptown, downtown is a place where a man "don't get no breaks" and "everyone's his boss, and he's lost in an angry land." But to hear Petula Clark on the subject, Downtown is an island of promise...
...company also picked up some problems along the way. Instead of sticking to acquiring existing real estate with a minimum of cash and a maximum of imaginative borrowing, Zeckendorf pushed Webb & Knapp into such unfamiliar enterprises as hotel management, urban renewal and building construction. By 1960, he had $500 million in construction projects under way. When costs began to skyrocket beyond his original estimates, Zeckendorf was unable to pay them. He began mortgaging his assets, borrowed money at excessive interest rates, some higher than 20%. He answered his critics by saying: "I'd rather be alive at 18% than...
...written to the specifications of the late Film Producer Jerry Wald. God knows who is responsible for this new collection of short stories in which Rona's girls suffer from serendipity in reverse-they have the gift of finding unpleasant things and situations not sought for. When these urban waifs encounter an attractive man, he's already married; if single, a homosexual; if both available and heterosexual, he is metaphorically dead...