Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outlining the task ahead. Johnson said that "in the remain der of this century, in less than 40 years, urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build in our cities as much as all that we have built since the first colonist arrived on these shores. It is as if we had 40 years to rebuild the entire urban U.S." Compounding the burden, he explained, is the present distressed state of U.S. cities: over 5,000,000 run-down or deteriorating homes, pockets of deCay in the heart of most cities, and suburban crawl...
...poet of the industrial society, Lewis said, has not achieved the "imaginative understanding" of his environment which is the basis of Iyric poetry, "The contemtemporary poet instinctively distrusts the present. Poetry," he said, "must come to terms with the urban-industrial landscape or else fade away with a long sigh of nostalgia...
...Homans' living room last Thursday night, the group, which includes City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci from East Cambridge, state Rep. Thomas H. Doherty Jr. (D-Cambridge), as well as other residents of Brookline and Cambridge--discussed both practical politics and the problems of urban transportation...
...creation of a Cabinet department of housing and urban affairs is "long overdue," Logue added. "It's the difference between junior varsity and varsity," he said...
...already experimenting with such subsidies in Washington Park as "a federal pilot project." If the President's proposal is approved, the subsidy system will be extended to other parts of the city. Logue suggested that first priority for subsidies be given to families who have been displaced by urban renewal or highway construction...