Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city are already outgrown, will reach their peak in 1968-eleven years before the entire 1049-mile system will be completed. Most cities have seen their commuter lines dwindle, and lean heavily on inadequate transit systems. Says Boston's Mayor Collins: "If we were to adapt an urban civilization to everybody who's lazy enough to get out of the house right into his car, drive to the office and want to park near it, you'd have nothing in city after city but a big hole and an underground parking garage.'' The possibility...
...Cockroaches." On his way to the gleaming new office buildings and hotels, the motorist often sees the least attractive side of many big cities: blight. Cities have always had their slums, but they are no longer taken for granted. With $16.3 billion allocated for urban renewal across the U.S. since 1949 ($2.5 billion by the Federal Government), the battle against blight is slowly being won. New York's urban renewal program has consumed as much money as the programs of all other U.S. cities, has cleared 7,000 badly blighted acres. Boston has a far-reaching urban renewal program...
...urban renewers have come under heavy fire for displacing people who had nowhere to go, tearing down neighborhoods that could have been saved. Now they are trying to avoid both faults. New York and Boston are using "selective redevelopment'' aimed at sprucing up old neighborhoods-such as Boston's historic North End-without heavy demolition and rebuilding. In many cities local citizens' committees are consulted at every step of redevelopment. Says Chicago's Mayor Daley: "You can't just rebuild a city physically without looking into the needs and wants of the people." When...
...that for years they have borne the heavy burden of state financing as the heaviest payers of taxes, while the state legislatures, dominated by rural representatives, give back such niggardly sums to the cities that they are strapped for funds for such vital functions as education, law enforcement, urban renewal and transportation. Individual and corporate income taxes from Boston give the state of Massachusetts $5,000,000 more than it returns to the city, and state aid granted to other cities and towns frequently includes the dastardly words "except Boston." "Los Angeles," complains Mayor Yorty, "has been badly neglected...
...their country cousins turn a deaf ear to their pleas, the cities have another course, which is the bogey of every state legislator who opposes the creation of a federal Department of Urban Affairs. The cities may be forced to bypass the state governments, which show little interest in their unique problems, and go directly to Washington for financial help. If that day comes, the states may lose their control over the big cities, thus eroding the U.S. system of federal-state government. In New York, there is the old proposition of seceding from Albany and joining the Union...