Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoken against any action that would keep the Yards off the tax rolls. But not until early last month did the Council move to take over the land by legislative action. A bill introduced by Councillor Daniel J. Hayes called on the City Manager to institute procedings under the Urban Renewal Act to acquire the Yards "for maximum development for tax purposes." Hayes intended Cambridge to declare the Yards an "Open Blighted Area," to pay the fair market value and to take them from the MTA by the power of eminent domain...
Defending the value of urban fallout shelters, Kistiakowsky pointed out that not all cities would necessarily be destroyed in an attack. "People living in or near prime target areas have higher probability of being killed, but provision of shelters reduces somewhat this probability," he maintained...
SEVERAL factors set off The Children of Sanchez from most other writings in the field. Most obviously, its form. Lewis presents a multiple autobiography of Jesus Sanchez and four of his children. Then, too, its subjects represent a new field of study. The Sanchez family are urban slum-dwellers. They are not all literate, but are very well-spoken, indicating perhaps that Lewis' technique could not be fruitfully applied to a culture with a limited vocabulary and a limited range of experience. Finally, the literary structure Lewis presents is a three-act drama (novel?) (each act covering the same time...
...continue describing the lives of these people, for it is impossible to know them without listening to their words. Lewis senses this, for his brief introduction does little more than present a rough description of what he calls the culture of poverty," a culture he finds among the urban poor throughout the world. Marked by instability, over crowded living conditions, an inability to plan ahead, a frequent resort to violence as the only reaction to strain, the culture of poverty is nonetheless not without positive aspects. As corollaries of instability and irresponsibility, one finds a strong sense of freedom...
KANU also commands the allegiance of most detribalized urban Africans, who devoutly believe Kenyatta's pledge that there will be work or land for everyone when his party has won independence on its own terms. KADU, on the other hand, draws most of its support from the Masai, Baluhya and other smaller tribes who, though a minority, occupy a far bigger area than the land-starved peoples represented by KANU. KADU's majimbo (regionalism ) plan is thus aimed at protecting minority rights of the smaller, often nomadic tribes against political and territorial domination by the big tribes...