Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, and two local erperts on city problems considered the progress and difficulties of urban renewal in a lively Law School Forum last night at Rindge Tech...
Daley, who was introduced as mayor of the city with "the major renewal program in the United States," stressed the necessity of broad, coordinated planning in urban renewal. Lack of such planning, he said, leads to delays, conflicts, and misunderstandings...
Using Chicago's "trail-blazing" efforts as examples, Daley explained that the scope of urban renewal is widening to include consideration of transit systems, sanitation problems, and "improved educational, health and recreational facilities of all kinds." He also told of a change in focus of renewal from one of "slum clearance" to one of "rehabilitation...
...running water. TV antennas are beginning to sprout above tin roofs; once in a while a relatively imposing dwelling thrusts above the squalid huts. But no major Latin American city has been able to cope with the ever-growing demands for housing. At least 400,000 new low-cost urban housing units are needed in Venezuela, 400,000 in Chile, 500,000 in Argentina...
...Education desperately made public a long-range plan to ease segregation by pairing about one-fifth of the mostly Negro schools with nearby mostly white schools, and integrating the student bodies. Whites protested what seemed to them forced integration; local integration organizations (plus the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and the Urban League), pressed to abandon their boycott, insisted that the integration plan fell far short of their aspirations...