Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complicating the picture, however, are the urban renewal funds which are available for construction associated with the Space Center. Cambridge may favor a project that would involve private development as well as the NASA project, but the availability of urban renewal funds may prove an obstacle...
...mention of Barry's name in the Cow Palace. And, in a far different way, it was manifest in jeers for Nelson Rockefeller as he spoke to the convention. These were not so much for the man or what he was saying as for what he symbolized-the urban Eastern "Establishment," the Eastern press and the Eastern cash that have dominated the G.O.P. for generations...
...Every American. Faulkner did not know everything about the South-at least about the new South. He knew few Negroes well, and no civil rights leaders at all, except in briefest acquaintance. He never understood (or anyway portrayed) the urban and educated Negroes that have been the spearhead of the civil rights fight. He saw federal action on civil rights through a haze of fact and legend about the Reconstruction imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim...
...some $2 billion worth of major construction is under way or planned in the metropolitan area. A 454-acre midtown tract of slums called Mill Creek Valley, filled with slum housing that cried out for rebuilding in 1954, is now one of the largest urban-renewal areas in the U.S. A substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch...
...jazz, city jazz, that Davis painted, right up until his death at the age of 69 last week. He was rooted in the American soil, but that soil was concrete. He loathed the country and loved the city, specifically Manhattan, and his abstract but objective works are syncopations of urban life...