Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth annual Urban Design Conference closed here Saturday, Frederick Gutheim, president of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, expressed hope that planners would take more careful note of changing sociological patterns because "city planning structures life" for urban populations...
Gutheim considered accessibility "the most important factor" in urban design, since it shapes employment opportunities, markets, and patterns of social relations among different classes of people in the city. He mentioned two changes in American sociology which are causing "irrevocable changes" in the way the city planner must think: high speed transportation and the large scale of the modern city...
Balancing the good portents with the bad, the New Frontier's economists still hold to their four-months-old prediction that 1962 urban housing starts will increase by 124,000, to 1,400,000. If they are right, the construction industry may yet supply the long-awaited "lift" needed to put some real steam in the recovery. An increase of 124,000 new houses would add at least $5 billion to the G.N.P.-half in the cost of building and equipping the new houses and half in the added income spread through the economy by construction hands, real estate...
...attack directed at major military targets (of which the most likely in this area is Westover Field, near Springfield), and upon other urban areas...
...Overseers approved these term appointments: Walter J. Kaiser '54, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature; Arnold C. Cooper, assistant professor of Business Administration; Francois C. Vigier, assistant professor of Urban Design; Albert R. Diebold, Jr., assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Jerome H. Kiotz, professor of Statistics; and Gluck, assistant professor of Mathematics...