Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same thing that gets into most U.S. hunters. There is no shortage of game-just a superabundance of hunters (15 million this year) and a paucity of places to hunt. Wary farmers post NO TRESPASSING signs; creeping asphalt and urban sprawl gobble up more land each year. What open land remains is often overcrowded. Last week in northern Michigan's Ogemaw County, the deer hunter population was 100 per sq. mi. In the East, it is worth a man's life to venture into the woods. "I don't know which is safer," says one hunter. "Wearing...
...rate on the Central Valley flatlands near Sacramento, Davis aims to be something more: a first-rate university with a vast campus of 3,710 acres. Already it has 4,900 students and 300,000 books; soon it will triple both, becoming the rural rival of Cal's urban jewels, Berkeley and U.C.L.A...
With its "Cal Aggie spirit"-corn-fed coeds, boys in cowboy boots, and an honored honor system-rural Davis seems almost anachronistic in the age of urban universities. That is precisely its pitch. "Our isolation is important," says genial Chancellor Emil Mrak, 62, a noted food technologist who used to teach at Berkeley. To justify his $10 million-a-year building program, Mrak has only to point at California's jammed cities and freeways. Davis appeals as an oasis-part farm, part suburbia-where everyone still knows everyone else. Cars are disdained in favor of bicycles...
...only as examples of various aspects of politics, not as individuals. Not only are these men interesting, but they have also assumed essential roles in determining the political processes of their cities. In attempting to deal with all cities, Banfield and Wilson have distilled away an essential ingredient of urban politics: the ability of individual politicians to change the political nature of their own communities...
...subject he really wished to explore was sociology. And in two years this wish, also, was realized. The University of Pennsylvania invited him to do a study of the Negro in Philadelphia. After one and a half years of work he wrote The Philadelphia Negro, one of the first urban sociological studies in the world. At about the same time Harvard published his doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, as the first volume of the Harvard Historical Studies...