Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburbs and practically anywhere they would fit. This eagerness pushed apartment construction up 19% last year, but caused some overbuilding in such cities as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Houston. One result: apartment building can be expected to slow up this year, holding the growth of all urban residential construction-which accounts for more than a third of all money spent on building-to a 3% increase v. 8% last year. Construction by businesses, which accounts for a fifth of all expenditures, will rise 4.7%, about the same as last year. Federal, state and local governments will spend...
Just then the Cadillac pulled up outside the Center for Urban Studies, one of the Governor's scheduled stops. He asked his aide where he was and what he was doing there as he got out of the limousine. The aide mumbled a few words to him as they walked up the stairs to the a few words to him as they walked up the stairs to the Center. Governor Brown was introduced to the directors of the project and was soon seated in a small office for a discussion with them. "I'm very interested in urban affairs...
...mind: the provincialism and brief history of our present customs; the organic nature of pleasure and its value as one criterion of vitality; the Thomist concept of sexual contact as a means of knowng another person; and the need to rethink the traditional family pattern in modern economic and urban conditions. I had prepared my notes carefully; I spoke my propositions tersely and, I felt, pretty well...
...unlikely leader of an unlikely organization-the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a loose alliance of 100 or so church-oriented groups. King has neither the quiet brilliance nor the sharp administrative capabilities of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins. He has none of the sophistication of the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., lacks Young's experience in dealing with high echelons of the U.S. business community. He has neither the inventiveness of CORE's James Farmer nor the raw militancy of SNICK's John Lewis nor the bristling wit of Author James Baldwin...
There are plenty of other openings for products that are either being neglected, insufficiently developed or overpriced: low-cost color TV and air conditioners, cheap farm machinery and gasoline engines for new nations, and fresh ideas in urban mass transportation. General Electric Economist Nelson Foote believes that one of the nation's basic needs is to keep the suburbs growing because of the vast number of products that new homes can absorb. The trick, he thinks, is to develop a good, low-priced house, and to create job opportunities for working wives outside cities...