Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge businesses suffered another defeat Thursday in their fight to prevent the City from acquiring land in Kendall Square under urban renewal laws for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's $61 million electronics laboratory...
There are 95 firms in the 42 acres designated for NASA and an adjoining private development. The firms, grouped together as the "Committee for the Preservation of Cambridge Industry," claims that the area is not "blighted" and that urban-renewal laws are only being used as a convenient vehicle to acquire their land...
...federal government's efforts to "shape" the "Spread City" reads like a General's account of the progress of the war. Stating that the government's goal is to prevent waste and disorder," Weaver enumerates uncritically federal programs to aid cities, and calls for "better organization of urban governments." He is, of course, selling the program which he heads, and he confines his generalization to purposes rather than effects, which is always safer ground...
Army morale is believed high. Over a four-year period, only seven or eight Red soldiers have defected along the enormous border running from Hong Kong to Pakistan. In recent years, more recruits have come from the cities than the rural areas because urban youths are more literate and thus better able to handle trucks, switchboards, radar, and all the other devices necessary to even a semi-modern army. This represents a calculated risk, since city youth are not so docile or amenable to discipline as farm boys are. Behind the front-line troops, China has around 12 million militiamen...
...Highway. Landscaping, said the President, should be required on all federal, interstate, primary and urban highways, "encouraging the construction of rest and recreation areas . . . and the preservation of natural beauty adjacent to highway rights-of-way." This means more restriction, for one thing, on outdoor advertising, for which Johnson plans to recommend more effective legislation to replace the present regulations, which expire in June. Also in for a sharp crackdown is a pet Johnsonian peeve-"unsightly, beauty-destroying junkyards and auto graveyards along our highways...