Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge the administration to look beyond these considerable but wholly solvable problems to a vision of the world's first undergraduate, urban, aerial, outdoor picnic ground. This is the kind of proposal that administrations generally pass off as "unrealistic" with an understanding, paternal smile. We hope, however, that this plan will not be ignored simply because it is unusual...
...great irony of the New Boston is that those who will benefit the least are also those who must suffer the most. Urban Renewal promises to repeat a process that has happened before--uprooting the poor and then failing to provide adequate housing for them, leaving them either to form new slums in the outlying regions or aggravate condition in already existing ones. The General Plan calls for the construction of 34,000 new housing units by 1975. According to the most conservative estimates, 25,000 to 30,000 families (over 100,000 people) will be displaced before...
Indeed, housing is but one example of the planners' indifference to the poor and their problems. Only four pages of the General Plan discuss the "disadvantaged," while ten assess transportation problems and another ten present an essentially trivial bibliography. Despite the glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary...
...Action Center, which now has five full-time workers and ten part-time student volunteers, will expand three existing programs to focus local attention on the problems of urban redevelopment, welfare, and schools...
...Action Center will organize residents to demand that the Boston Redevelopment Authority provide good housing for immediate occupancy when this summer's urban renewal begins. Seventy-five per cent of lower Roxbury was slated for demolition beginning in July, and the shortage of inexpensive housing for those displaced will be acute. In a second project, the Action Center will organize a local group, Mothers For Adequate Welfare, in a drive to publicize the rights of welfare recipients. The Center will also continue a door-to-door survey seeking suggestions to improve schools in the already-integrated districts of Roxbury...