Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite this, the Federal Government, with enthusiastic assistance from state and local governments, continues to ride the railroads as though they still possessed their igth century monopoly. In the urban East, where Government insistence on the continuance of money-losing passenger and commuter runs hurts the most, the 40 major roads actually rolled $110 million in the red in the first half of 1961. Overall, the 107 Class One U.S. railroads last year earned barely 2% on invested capital-less than during Depression years. The hapless New York, New Haven & Hartford is already in bankruptcy. And President Alfred Perlman...
Creese felt that urban architecture, to be sound, must be guided by the true standards set by the early planners...
Creese, supplementing his lecture with slides, compared the modern urban forms--the streets, suburbs, and skyscrapers--to the original conceptions and standards of these forms. The street, for example, was originally to display rationalism, systemization, and a separation of parts; but, Creese explained, this conception has deteriorated to a mass of people and cars, the very antithesis of early prototypes...
While streets and suburbs have differed from their original ideals somewhat, correct forms of the skyscraper do appear in urban America. These forms indicate that the "surrealistic attitude is more realistic in time," commented Creese, former President of the American Society of Architectural Historians...
...Urban architecture then, Creese declared, requires (1) the discovery of the functions and conceptual standards of the city's components and (2) the architect's preservation of these standards while facing urban problems demanding quick solutions...