Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John F. Kain, as expert on urban transportation and co-author of a White House Report, "Technology and Urban Transportation," will become assistant professor of economics. He now teaches at the U.S. Air Force Academy...
...these ends, the Joint Center grants pre-doctoral fellowships to graduate students in the field of urban studies, provides part of the salaries of faculty associates with the Center, and brings in visiting associates from other agencies and universities. In its six years of operation, the Joint Center has come to be considered by many urban experts the best institution of its kind in the country...
...issue is not so easily settled. In the first place, the line between scholarly objectivity and biased selection of facts is all but impossible to draw in underdeveloped academic areas such as urban studies...
Since Harvard and M.I.T. merged their centers for urban studies in 1959 at the suggestion of the Ford Foundation, and Martin Meyerson, now Acting Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, became director of the new Joint Center, "we have been building up intellectual capital," Wilson explains. "Now I think we are ready for something more...
...Intellectually," Wilson predicts, "the experience in Venezuela show that national planning and economic development cannot proceed effectively unless urban and regional components are considered." Organizationally, it will demonstrate "the collaboration of officials, planners, and advisors from various disciplines...