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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of the City Council's special committee on the Bennett St. MBTA Yards wants to turn the 12-acre area into an urban-renewal project...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Councillor Proposes Urban Renewal To Guide MBTA Yard Development | 11/25/1964 | See Source »

Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. would like the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority--with the aid of Federal urban-renewal funds--to acquire the Yards from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and then resell the area to the developer who could assure "the highest and best use" of the land...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Councillor Proposes Urban Renewal To Guide MBTA Yard Development | 11/25/1964 | See Source »

...Thus urban renewal will have only a cosmetic effect on our cities, and the billions of dollars invested will be lost, unless it is combined with comprehensive programs of low-cost housing, education and social services designed to bring the marginal people and businesses back into the main stream of our society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...Urban renewal causes the disruption and displacement of large numbers of small businessmen in Philadelphia. The Redevelopment Authority publicly admits that only 50% of the small businessmen in a project area survive and relocate. If the authorities in planning and programming will permit small business to participate in the planning for the entire city as well as locally, guarantee to the businesses whose properties are condemned the right to relocate, and provide adequate compensation for the loss of good will and other damage, the tragedy could be avoided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...hope those urban planners make allowance for such little things as sidewalk cafes and coffeehouses where pedestrians can relax over a 25? cup of espresso for an hour or two, absorbing all this renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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