Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years until sickness forced him to retire in 1960. His first original poems were sketches and dramatic monologues of working-class New Yorkers just as the Depression began, and though his vision has become more complex, he has continued to be characteristically a poet of 20th century urban alienation, of "the straight, the narrow city, careless goddess" and "the civilized barbarians of the street," where even the oldest inhabitants must make the odd, damning admission, "Yes, I live here: I'm a stranger here myself...
...appeal pending in the Massachusetts State Judicial Court challenges the right of Cambridge to take the Kendall Square site under urban renewal laws and then resell to NASA...
...courts uphold Cambridge's position, the City would receive federal urban renewal funds to clear the 42 acres in Kendall Square--29 for NASA and 13 for an adjoining private development...
...taken four years' work and $21.5 million, but San Diegans were convinced that the evening had been worth it. For with the opening night of San Diego's impressive new Civic Theater last week, the community could look back with pride on an urban-renewal program without parallel in the U.S. It could also look forward to growth and progress that of late have eluded what was becoming California's problem city...
...most recent U.S. urban building, the rule has been every man for himself. With no overall plan, the architect has too often stopped his concern at the property line. Occasionally, as a civic gesture, a building will draw back to leave space for a prestige plaza or a fountain or two. But the impression is still that of a battle of towers, much like Renaissance Bologna's, where each noble family vied to build a taller battlement from which to frown and, on occasion, bombard one another...