Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noncompliance, but the order arms federal officials with sharp-bladed threats to wield: for builders, refusal of FHA and Veterans Administration financing for their projects; for banks, loss of FHA and VA mortgage business; for states and municipalities, loss of federal grants and loans for slum clearance and urban renewal...
...suggested that Cambridge might be able to have the yards condemned as a blighted area under the Urban Redevelopment Act, and would then be in a position to specify exactly what kind of development private builders should undertake...
...committee to find a school superintendent for New York (surely the most delicate and trying job to ask of any educator), and his 14-year-long supervision of the University's rapidly growing Graduate School of Education have shown it. He has a clear vision of what urban schools systems could be in this country: strengthened by federal money, freed from provincialisms, and staffed by teachers with palpable incentives to teach; and he has the vigor to persuade other educators of the need for radical reform. One's only fear about the appointment is that the job's wretched history...
...people who sit in the urban coffeehouses sipping mocha Java at 60? a cup are mainly of college age. They take folk singing very seriously. No matter how bad a performing singer may be, the least amount of cross talk will provoke an angry shhhh...
...restraint has confounded them. Instead of trying to lure his partners into big, risky new realty enterprises, Zeckendorf has manfully sold one property after another to acquire new working capital. Last week he spun off five urban redevelopment projects in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to Alcoa Urban Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of mighty Aluminum Co. of America, which wants to do a little diversifying in a way that will also promote the use of aluminum construction. Alcoa gave Zeckendorf Property Corp. (an equal partnership between the British consortium and Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.) $10 million...