Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...churches seem to be finding solutions. Within the World Council, there is widespread debate about the need to forsake the traditional parish in favor of new forms of urban churchas-such as the "guild churches" of London, each of which ministers to a particular fragment of the city's population, or the Japanese cell churches that serve textile workers in Osaka and are run by ministers who also work as secretaries in the textile unions...
...programs will provide the same basic training as all other Peace Corps programs. They will specialize in secondary school teaching in English-speaking and French-speaking Africa, community development projects in urban and rural areas of Latin America, teaching English as a foreign language, and "exotic" languages, such as Thai...
...ghetto, the legislature might pass a law (like one in New York) enabling the city to collect rents on sub-standard dwellings and to use the money for correction of building code violations. Among welcome, if unlikely, actions governmental bodies might take are the building of more urban renewal projects for low income families in Roxbury and the redrawing of school lines to end de facto segregation in education...
Calling himself "a Catholic gynecologist with a scientific knowledge of sex," John Rock '15, clinical professor of Gynecology, emeritus, uttered a strong appeal for the United States to "set an example for the rest of the world" by holding down the birth rate as much as possible, especially in urban areas...
...goes into unnecessary speculation about the future of our technological society, but he also makes the valid point that a neighborhood (particularly a lower-class neighborhood) is a web of vital human relationships which are destroyed whenever the neighborhood is. The planner should realize, therefore, that new highways and urban renewal disrupt the lives of hundreds of people; he should not rearrange cities for purely aesthetic or commercial reasons. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to distinguish Milde's ideas from these of Professor Banfield, whom he quotes at the beginning...