Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daley sees himself as one of a new breed of bosses, those who use extensive powers for public good. "Good government is good politics," he says, and in the nine years he has been mayor, Chicago has begun the most comprehensive urban renewal program in the United States. But city-wide planning may result in local discontent. Daley's voice sharpens when he discusses a small group of citizens who refused to make way for a new branch of the University of Illinois. "Everyone wants public works somewhere else besides their own block. We have a majority government...
...urban renewal programs now under way in Chicago, modernizing and strict enforcing of basic codes have led to increased public compliance with legal standards, Daley said...
...role of elected local authorities, Daley concluded, is particularly important in coordinating and strengthening policies of urban renewal. Specialists study the problems, but elected officials bear the responsibility of making decisions. He asserted that solutions will be found for cities' problems, and he pointed to Chicago's renewal "pilot project" in the Hyde Park-Kenwood community to show that they can be found...
Edward Logue, director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government and director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard, were the evening's other two speakers...
Logue quickly assessed the audience as 60 per cent suburban and 40 per cent urban dwellers, and went on to describe the hypocrisy of suburbanites' attitudes toward urban renewal...