Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national interest." But at the same time, he has sometimes seemed to be seeking more to embarrass Republicans in an election year than to achieve legislation. Prime examples are the President's medical care bill and his abortive effort to create a Cabinet-level department of urban affairs. Result: Republicans have reacted against Kennedy's programs with a party-line unanimity rare in recent history...
...Christian, nearly every West African leader, from Ghana's flamboyant Kwame Nkrumah to Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, studied at mission schools. Protestant and Catholic schools of West Africa today have more than 200,000 students-including most sons and daughters of the new nations' urban elite...
Rockefeller managed to make himself seem inconsistent on the national scene as well. He lashed out in Des Moines at Kennedy's proposal for a department of urban affairs-then was publicly reminded that he had previously favored such a department. (He does not favor it "in its present form"-but few voters got the distinction.) And when Mary Rockefeller went to Reno-at the Governor's request -politicians began counting the vote losses in the thousands every time the press printed a picture...
Closeness & Surprise. The automobile has so spread out stores and clogged up streets that the only solution is to cluster shops together again, the way they traditionally were, and let the shopper get out and walk. Shopping centers with "pedestrian malls" proliferate across the land. But too many urban planners seem to be still thinking of the automobile, laying out their malls with bleak, wide-open spaces that provide neither pleasure for the sauntering eye nor convenience for the foot-weary shopper...
...current issue of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, M. R. Wolfe, professor of urban planning at the University of Washington, urges modern mall makers to abandon their sweeping vistas and their straight lines and do a bit of borrowing from the old cities of the world, with their twisting, narrow streets dominated by clock towers and opening into sudden squares...