Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brecht, who had never been to this country, Chicago suggested a dissipated, Darwinian atmosphere retaining traces of the then-recent Wild West. It epitomized the ruthless urban machine that consumed the poor, trying their sensitivity and testing their capacity for suffering. Chicago also illustrated for the playwright the intense loneliness of the human condition: Conversations take on the futile quality of dual soliloquys...
...Their power is now so vast," he continued, "That once they have built their super highway in a wrong place--as they propose to do in Cambridge--no amount of urban design, however inspired can possibly erase that mistake...
...time has come for our cities to be shaped, not by highway engineers, but by urban designers and planners who start with the human needs of cities and then subordinate all the services required--including superhighways--to those human needs," he said at a press conference...
Transportation problems must be solved, Blake said, through coordinated planning among different highway-building bureaus and other transit agencies. Such cooperation is not wide spread today, he noted. He emphasized, however, that all transportation solutions must be tailored to the overall priorities of urban design...
...have every right and probably much reason to regret that Cassius has provided the Muslims with a public forum for their philosophy. We may hope like hell that Floyd Patterson can work his way up the heavyweight ladder, defeat Clay, and then quietly preach the Urban League doctrine from the throne. Or, we might wish for the good old days when fighters fought, kept their social and religious convictions to themselves, and left the civil rights movement for quicker minds to deal with...