Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent article on urban renewal [Nov. 9] stressed the often handsome new construction that accrues to the city after such redevelopment. However, a tremendous hidden social cost is incurred, which accounts for much of the vociferous opposition to all renewal. When large, densely populated areas are cleared, many people and businesses are displaced. Most of these people are poor, and many belong to ethnic minorities. They do not disappear from the earth but, rather, crowd into other low-rental areas, creating new slums. But in many instances, the marginal businesses in the renewal areas do disappear. These businesses, often...
...Harvard professors discussed the theoretical and three Radcliffe alumnae replied with examples of the practical in a panel discussion yesterday morning on urban problems...
Martha Derthick, instructor in Government, said the only way to solve urban problems was through an increase in coercion, a greater concentration of political power. Such solutions, however, would involve a decrease in the individual's freedom of choice and a corresponding decrease in democracy in urban areas, she said...
...Urban problems, including high population density, bad schools, lack of public facilities, and air pollution are susceptible to solution through governmental action, Miss Derthick pointed out; people can be ordered to move out of cities, taxes heavy enough to provide good schools can be levied. But since action in these areas has met with increasing resistance, Miss Derthick suggested that the problems "may not be as urgent as we think they...
...money riding on last week's elections. In the second largest borrowing referendum in history, voters in 23 states had to decide on proposed bond issues to raise more than $2.9 billion for new roads, airport terminals, schools, parks, subways, sea walls, water and sewer mains and urban renewal. Their decision: overwhelming approval of well over two-thirds of the bond issues, ranging from $1,500,000 for new firehouses in Omaha to $790 million for schools and parks in California. For the U.S. economy, the $2.2 billion in new state and local borrowing thus voted means an added...