Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Excellent within its limited boundary, your article on cities was otherwise as hollow as a soda straw, so glaringly devoid was it of bare mention of the largest urban renewal project in the U.S. at Minneapolis, designed to further our city's reputation as the most beautiful metropolis in America...
...states themselves, the upstate or downstate farm vote on social legislation has been a vote for the past against the city. Rural Republicans in the North and West and conservative Democrats in the South have manipulated their legislatures to block greater state spending on such urban problems as transportation, schools, and slum clearance...
...Court's decision may mean that metropolitan liberals have a fair chance to establish control of state legislatures--and a better chance to seat their own men in Congress. It may mean that urban minorities will have even greater leverage in American politics. And it may mean that urban reform can at last free itself from rusty political machinery never designed for this century...
Councillor Daniel J. Hayes, rebounding from a decision that Cambridge cannot now legally seize the MTA Yards by the power of eminent domain, ordered that the City investigate the possibility of taking the property "for urban renewal" as soon at the MTA announces an intention to sell...
...further pointed out that the MTA must allow a three-week period for public bidding between the time it offers the land and actually completes the sale. "During that time," Hayes declared yesterday, "the City might be able to take the land from the MTA for a redevelopment or urban renewal project...