Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commentators have traditionally concentrated on the legal governmental structure of cities and have avoided city politics as if it were somehow too sordid to warrant scholarly attention. Recently, a few scholars such as Oscar Handlin, Wallace Sayre, and Herbert Kaufman have tried to demonstrate the importance of politics in urban life, but none has done it on as large a scale or with as much skill as Banfield and Wilson...
City Politics examines the structure of urban politics: the electoral system, the distribution of authority, the centralization of influence; and analyzes the forces and groups involved: reform, non-partisanship, businessmen, the Negroes. The authors see a steady trend toward middle-class values in politics--honesty, "good government," concern for the entire community as opposed to specific neighborhoods. As these middle-class values gain acceptance, the old political machines crumble and are superceded by stronger centralized governments. Although administrative authority becomes concentrated, effective political power decreases, because the centralizing influence of the machine has been destroyed...
There are still problems with Forum, especially financial ones, and the relationship with the Junior Chamber is tenuous. But Forum is a worthy addition to the often brutal world of little, penurious magazines. The next issue sounds highly promising. It will be centered on the problem of urban renewal, and include articles on the architectural, administrative, and social questions involved in the New Sterile Boston's redevelopment...
Yale's 250-year-old urban campus was a particularly cramped site for experiment; over the years, an ever-growing university had to build on top of itself. Cheek-by-jowl existed buildings from the colonial brick of Connecticut Hall where Nathan Hale once lived, to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's dark glass box containing the university's IBM computer center. At one end of the campus is an electricity-generating powerhouse in, of all things, Gothic; not far away is a student dwelling, Davenport College, so eclectic that its street fac.ade is pseudo-Gothic and its courtyard...
They are the rural dispossessed-Southern Negroes, Appalachian whites, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans-who fill the urban void left by middle-class migration to the suburbs. They share the American dream of salvation by education and go to the public school that everyone says will save them. Why is it that just the opposite happens so often in city schools across the country...