Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tangible world and the pride of life. The urban seagulls drift on the sky Like words upon silence; and needles...
...list could go on, through some 54 federally aided urban renewal projects that Philadelphia has completed or has in the works, plus 21 others that did not involve direct federal cash...
...They'll never solve the traffic jams," opines Logue. "What we lack in open space, we will make up in convenience." Two Stories High. The third of the three top urban renewal men in the U.S. is San Francisco's pragmatic, perceptive and somewhat excitable M. Justin Herman. San Franciscans were shocked into action by the state-built Embarcadero Freeway, which they discovered was barreling along the edge of town, cutting off the view of their cherished waterfront. The resultant outcry halted the expressway (which now leads to nothing in particular), and incidentally aroused the city's leaders into more...
Baltimore Renewal and Housing Agency. "Generally speaking, these are still poor people. But there is a great change. In the past it was an area for a person to get out of, if he could afford it. Now it's a place to stay in." The Beautiful Cities. The urban renewal operation, always painful and not always a success, requires a solid consensus of civic opinion and energy. In Buffalo, for instance, a $15 million renewal program has been stalled in its tracks for a year and a half while politicians bicker over which developers should...
...Urban renewal," the slogan goes, "is Negro removal." On the financial level, critics think the bulldozer has been overworked...