Word: urbanize
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According to John E. Burchard, Dean of Humanities at MIT and General Chairman of the conference, the primary focus of the meeting will be academic rather than practical. That is, the conference will seek first to encourage a more active study of urban history, rather than explicitly offer concrete solutions to current problems. But it is hoped, too, that the papers and discussions will provide some fruitful generalizations about cities of the past that may be applied to the study of cities in the present. Then these new concepts and leading ideas might provide an intellectual foundation for contemporary city...
...rather scholarly conference papers can suggest some answers to great questions about cities of the past, will these solutions prove relevant to contemporary urban problems? This will be one of the questions that the members of the conference will have to consider. Is there any continuity in the history of the city? Do contemporary cities obey the laws of change of past cities? Are the problems of urban industrial civilization completely unique...
...other questions in terms of their specialized disciplines. The seven closed sessions will consider the role of the city in technological innovation and economic development; in the history of ideas; in the development of architecture and related physical features; and finally, the meaning of these findings for the contemporary urban world. Senator Joseph S. Clark '23 of Pennsylvania, will moderate the final session...
Many of the questions of the conference will deal with urbanization. What is that impact of the city on its population? what are the specific characteristics--physical, social, cultural, etc.-- that explain this impact? How explain urban growth, and why do some cities stagnate or die? What is the broader significance of suburbanization, and what happens to the central city...
...papers also will consider, in the histories of specific cities, some perennial problems of urban life: How did the Romans, for example, handle their traffic problems? taxes? slums? rebuilding? division of work and residence areas? farming and cultivation within the city? the relationship of the intellectual to the city...