Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 50 eminent international scholars will gather in Cambridge late next month to discuss the role of the city in history, and to consider whether history offers any lessons in the present muddle of urban affairs...
...Conference on the City and History, scheduled for the week of July 24-23, is being sponsored by the Summer School and the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies. Its purpose is to inspire historical research on the development of the city, a subject long neglected by scholars...
...impetus behind such work should not be simply for better University-city relations. This is incidental. Rather, in a community with so many challenges for urban and social renewal, the interested undergraduate might learn a few simple facts of life that he would not otherwise...
Moving out. Keenly aware that its giant shopping centers have played a major role in the decline of Detroit's central business district, Hudson's has sought to compensate by getting behind Detroit's extensive urban renewal projects. And to protect its own downtown investment, the company tries to lure suburban shoppers into its main store with art, flower and fashion shows, with import fairs and cooking and sewing clinics. The downtown store still accounts for 50% of Hudson's business...
Apart from his personal demonology, what haunted Lowry and what was he driving at? He was a highly civilized man, but he was sick of civilization. "Creator of deathscapes," he called it. Like D. H. Lawrence, he was drawn to the "blood consciousness," and he felt that urban industrialized life cut man off from innocence, vitality and a piety before nature. On a brittle, sophisticated level, Lowry was weary of it all. On a more profound level, he felt the kind of metaphysical nausea that Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins expressed in the lines...