Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely to head President Kennedy's proposed Department of urban Affairs emphasized Friday night that initiative, responsibility, and no all amount of federal and local courage can successfully contribute to the renascence of major American cities now on the decline...
Citing the "vast urban revolution" facing the United States, Weaver quoted sector Gruen's aphorism--"If we keep planning in our present direction, our cities will resemble doughnuts: all the dough in the suburbs and nothing in the middle at the hole. Will we accept without question patterns of life foisted upon us the accidents of growth?" Weaver asked...
Describing important convictions in the administration's urban policy, he said, "The small town atmosphere has appeared from our major cities and cannot be reclaimed. Yet somehow the persists that city planners can recapture the virtues of the past with green and high rise apartments in the of untrodden grass...
...primary task of urban problems to revitalize the central city, weaver said. Asserting that Americans the city for "the challenge of its concentration," he stated that "to abandon central cities would be to forsake the merstones of our culture...
...most important problems re-invigorating urban areas, he pointed is to unite the suburbs in an attempt control metropolitan growth. "Every political subdivision within a metropolitan area is the prisoner of it," he said...