Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twentieth century citizens, declared Creese last Thursday afternoon, "have not made their mark on the city." He claimed many modern architects and city planners have succumbed to novelty-like changes of the city's parts, changes that do not necessarily reveal the true norms of functional urban architecture...
...Illinois educator called the constantly changing contemporary scene the "dynamic principle of architecture." Our cities are forced to change to cope with expanding populations driving millions of cars, the vehicles that strictly dictate urban habits...
...dynamic principle's motivating force--large numbers of people--has frightened some city planners. Many 20th century planners and architects, Creese continued, have forsaken the original conceptions of the street, skyscraper, and suburb in the quest for quick, but architecturally unsound solutions to the problems posed by a demanding urban population...
...Just the right incident," says Detroit Urban League Vocational Director Ernest Brown, "can be the bomb." Chicago, where tempers are tightest, has had three bombs: white violence against Negroes who took fire refuge in a white church (TIME, July 7); Negro wade-ins at all-white Rainbow Beach, where the sight of white demonstrators being dragged off by Negro cops did little to ease tensions; an unsolved Lawndale shooting, which Negroes blame on white youths...
...budget of $3,134,000 for 1961-came to more than the city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most of the money was going down by the riverside. Worse still, unless costs were cut, the city would have to forego a big urban renewal project or face either a deficit or a tax hike. So last month Mitchell and the council put together a tough new 13-point code aimed at stopping relief chiseling. Among the code's provisions: a three-month limitation on relief payments, except for the physically handicapped...