Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large unrestricted grants from the Ford Foundation and by contracts from private and government agencies, the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and M.I.T. gets its analytic hands into basic research and policy problems ranging from traffic engineering to the design and construction of a new city in Venezuela with a projected population of 500,000. And it has been ruffling a good many conventional political and administrative feathers in the process...
...Sunday afternoon, army defectors distributed four truckloads of weapons among rebels in the Ciudad Nueva, a low-cost housing area in the city's southeast: bazookas, .50-cal. machine guns, automatic rifles. Pro-Bosch rebels numbering about 2,000 to 4,000 began waging an urban guerrilla war, making forays into the business district, thus paralyzing the city. Rebel mobs sacked the new Pepsi-Cola plant, set fire to the offices of a pro-Reid newspaper, destroyed Reid's auto agency...
Weaving art and architecture together in the fabric of the city is the dream of many planners. Yet Manhattan's 30-year-old Rockefeller Center has long provided the prototype for such urban tapestries. Over the years, 30 artists* have installed more than 100 commissioned works in the complex city within a city. Some of its sculptures are even now legendary, if vintage: Paul Manship's gilded Prometheus, Lee Lawrie's 45-ft.-high Atlas looming over Fifth Avenue. There is even a 1932 Stuart Davis mural in a men's room. Appropriately, it is titled...
...news media, publicity spread faster than cracks in a Massachusetts highway. Time ran a half-page feature beginning "Stretching its wheelbase, spreading its strack, strapping its concrete hands across the land, the automobile inches humanity back and back...." Life supported the anti-underpass campaign in an editorial decrying poor urban planning...
...rolling in money. We are so rich we don't know how rich we are," Daniel Patrick Moynihan, assistant secretary of labor told the opening session of the ninth anual Urban Design Conference in Sanders Theatre...