Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor of Boston is a vassal of the legislature and the victim of a feudal tax structure," Collins declared at a forum sponsored by the Joint Center on Urban Studies, where five "new mayors" attempted to explain where they find the power to govern...
Presented by the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University, the forum will be moderated by Don K. Price, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration. It will include Mayors John F. Collins of Boston, Richard C. Lee of New Haven, Edward A. Crane '35 of Cambridge, Raymond Tucker of St. Louis, and Ben West of Nashville, Tenn...
...change has been so rapid and radical that the name "city" is now obsolete, according to Handlin. He added that "we can no longer treat Boston, New York, or Philadelphia as urban centers--we must rather consider the entire regions as urban societies...
Thus, it is possible to attain desirable elements of urban life outside the central city without any of the disadvantages of the city...
Rodwin also criticized federal action in this field. He emphasized that the bulk of federal housing aid helps middle income families who are moving to the suburbs. "The Federal government has no urban housing policy. There is no systematic atempt to deal with the problems of the city as a whole," he asserted...