Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political radicalism rises," he continued, "neither when economic development is non-existent, nor when the country is fully developed. It comes in middle states when the urban worker has not received the social benefits of progress...
Weaver, who is administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, told his Sanders audience in the second Godkin lecture that there is "a new direction" in the urban renewal program in which "moderate-income housing and rehabilitation of existing housing will be stressed...
...revitalizing these "core areas," urban renewal allows the city to acquire a total area and deal with it as a unit by the use of eminent domain. And urban renewal subsidies "accelerate and in crease the demand for central locations...
...romantic illusion" to be lieve that urban renewal will solve all the city's economic problems or clear all the slums, Weaver emphasized. And in the past, he added, renewal programs have too frequently complicated rather than cased these problems...
...future, urban renewal "will not do the whole job." Grants for construction of "social public facilities," and improvement of mass transportation. Weaver concluded, "will have even greater impact on people...