Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tilly said three factors will tend to reverse the growth of Negro ghettos. First, he said, the rate of Negro immigration from the South to the urban northeast ("the most highly segregated part of the United States") can be expected to slow down...
...thirdly, public policy will make a conscious effort to break up ghettos. Tilly said that officials are realizing the potential of urban renewal to become more than just "Negro removal." But he also predicted that cities will employ more sophisticated tools to eliminate Negro ghettos...
...State House) have rocketed the Memorial Drive controversy onto the front pages of the Boston papers and into the national press. Time magazine wrote about the debate in its "Modern Living" Section, and Life magazine gave its support to the anti-underpass campaign in an editorial decrying poor urban planning...
...sources of radical and rebellious Roman Catholic thinking used to be the industrial missions in urban France or the theological faculties of German universities. Lately, the fount of ideas that may skirt heresy - or may become the accepted reshaping of church thinking - is the staid and sober Netherlands...
Haussmannian. More than the stopgap panaceas and two-dimensional thinking of much urban renewal, the plan is Haussmannian in scope and architectural in dimension. The council would turn Pennsylvania Avenue into a ceremonial boulevard with distinctive brick paving, bordered by double or triple rows of graceful shade trees, and three-level sidewalks to take the rubbernecking out of parade watching. Constitution Avenue, which now makes a messy, scissorslike intersection with Pennsylvania, would neatly dive beneath...