Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 150 people jammed into Winthrop House's Tonkens Room last night to hear a heated discussion on the practical problems and potential promise of American cities--including a condemnation of Harvard and M.I.T. for the failure of urban renewal in Cambridge...
Died. Jack Cotton, 61, British property tycoon, a Birmingham urban developer who changed his native skyline so drastically that by 1950 residents joked about Birmingham "B.C." (before Cotton), in 1960 merged with London Financier Charles Clore to form the world-girdling, $1 billion City Centre Properties Ltd. (whose assets include 50% of Manhattan's Pan Am building), but soon found Clore a bore and, seriously ill, sold out to the Clore corps last year; of a heart attack; in Nassau...
...Californian, got his $10,000 by submitting three pictures with a total running time of one hour and 54 minutes. Two of Mackenzie's films are good, straightforward documentaries, one on a rodeo cowboy and the other on old people doomed to lose their homes to urban redevelopment in Los Angeles. But his really arresting accomplishment is a semidocumentary, full-length feature called The Exiles, a picture about American Indians as they live in Los Angeles today. Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing...
...years Britain has been growing lopsided. As lingering depression shuttered the mills and shipyards of Scotland and the industrial north, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families drifted into southeast England. New industries sprang up, and a blotchy urban sprawl transformed the home counties surrounding London into Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telephone poles and tin." Greater London is being choked by its population explosion; its birth rate is six times that of the rest of the country. Traffic is so congested in the city that when a magazine staged a race between...
Company Wives. Amid general applause for the plan, critics pointed to the 19 "new towns" built earlier throughout Britain, which were supposed to be "an essay in civilization, the means for a happy and gracious way of life." Nearly 550,000 people have already been moved out of urban centers to these garden cities, but many have complained about "loneliness and lack of neighborliness...