Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without zoning regulations, Houston is ineligible for federal urban renewal aid. but Houstonians are confident they can get along without it. Says Ralph S. Ellifrit, director of city planning: "When our little shacks rot away, you can just push them all over with a bulldozer. There's not going to be anything...
...resolution, approved by a 6-3 vote, grants funds to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority to restudy the section of East Cambridge known as the Donnelly Field area. The CRA will then submit to the Council "a revised tentative plan" for urban redevelopment...
...needs of the impoverished people in the Inner City, then we have nothing to say to anybody." Father Hastie, whose congregation is 90% Negro, battles for his parishioners against city red tape, frequently appears in court to help a worshiper in trouble, has organized civic groups to lobby for urban renewal funds. Says he: "I believe it is the responsibility of the clergy to be a spokesman for or against anything that affects the life of his congregation...
...decayed into slums, vestrymen and clergy often gave up, sold their empty churches to Pentecostal sects or parking lot operators. But the tide is beginning to turn, as mainstream churches have raised a new generation of dedicated Protestant ministers who are bringing religion alive again in their once-dying urban parishes. Every denomination has some of these clerical heroes, but none are more dedicated than those who belong to the sedate Protestant Episcopal Church. Most industrial cities in the U.S. have a cadre of Episcopal priests who are turning old middle-class churches into missions for the poor...
...jets and by federal allocations averaging $75 million a year, city after city has broken out a brand-new terminal during the past two or three years. A town without new airport construction on the ground or at least on the drawing boards seems heading for an urban inferiority complex. And a "soaring" airport is getting to be the most...