Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kool-Aid & Custer. Jackie Vernon, now working in New York, is so polite, humble and self-effacing that he risks tears instead of laughter. Raised in East Harlem and educated at The Bronx's Theodore Roosevelt High School, he has a mild voice with a sad urban accent, and his heavy-jowled blinking face has a kind of massive resemblance to Jonathan Winters. If it is true that all comedians and clowns are deeply and utterly defeated, then Jackie Vernon manages to suggest that he is the archetype of his tribe...
...attack. The General Services Administration, he said, is erecting a $6,500,000 federal building in Billings, Mont., although the city's 1,000 Government employees are "reasonably happy" in rented offices and Billings suffers from an oversupply of rentable office space. In Cleveland, said Neilan, the Urban Renewal Administration approved $43 million in grants and loans for a rebuilding program in which 60 of 84 buildings to be torn down are still structurally sound. Neilan saved his severest criticism for the Area Redevelopment Administration, whose agents, said he, are "combing the country in search of communities which will...
California's Bill Pereira is dealing with no monuments, no national sentiments, no cities-in-vacuum. He has had the luck?helped by hard work and great skill?to fall into something truly unique: the chance?and the challenge ?to build a huge new community alongside the urban disorder of the boom town of the boom state in the boom country of the world. It is a golden opportunity, and no one is more aware of the fact than Pereira himself...
Girl Stalker. This lover of open spaces grew up within a block of one of the biggest urban open spaces in the U.S.?Chicago's Lake Michigan. "I can't remember when I didn't want to be an architect," says Pereira. As a boy, he was seldom without a sketchbook in his hand; at twelve, he had a part-time job as a sign painter. He worked his way through the University of Illinois painting scenery, illustrating menus and lecture notes for a duplicating company, picking up odd art jobs. He majored in architecture, minored in physics, bore...
...where not only the new towns but the interrelated land uses of the surrounding areas are planned together. Even today, most big planning projects consist either of creating a new community in a relative void?such as Brasilia?or replanning part of an existing city, as with the usual urban renewal project. The prospect of planning from scratch an entire complex within a major population center rather than hundreds of miles away from it?and to do it under private rather than governmental auspices?would seem to most planners an impossible dream...