Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total of $1 million has been granted the Joint Center for Urban Research to further planning of the new Venezuelan city, Santa Tome de Guayana...
Assembling scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, the Center attempts to increase research activity in four general areas: the structure, growth, and comparative analysis of cities, urban transportation and technology, urban design, and urban and regional problems in developing countries...
Martin Meyerson, Frank Buckus Williams Professor of City Planning and Urban Research, is director of the program. Participants in the program include Edward C. Banfield, professor of Government, Sam B. Warner, instructor in History, and Serge Chermayeff, former professor of Architecture...
...thinking might be broader than that. Bell writes in The End of Ideology, "But where the problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...
...Council members would say they are in favor of urban redevelopment," said Crane, "but the distinction is on the type...