Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporters. Those liberals who advocate reform of the college in the name of democracy are preaching an unreal politics, for liberal reform has an investment in the present electoral apparatus. Under the system as it stands, counting each state's vote as a bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached to these states by both Kennedy and Nixon. And both parties were forced to bid for the crucial Negro vote with daring civil rights planks...
...industrial states and urban minorities need to be so favored, because the rest of the political system in the country is rigged against them. Each state has two Senators--this helps the small states, of course, since their votes equal that of New York. House districts are apportioned in a manner which favors the rural vote. And, in all the state legislatures, it is a notorious truth that the cities are under-represented. Thus it is the presidential election which makes the urban population count for much in a system where it would otherwise count for little...
...drawn by Architect William L. Pereira, who did the overall design for the University of California's Santa Barbara branch. Instead of developing the Irvine ranch simply as a suburb of sprawling Los Angeles, Pereira has planned an independent, self-supporting city. The first community in the urban area (see map) will border Newport Beach, have a $150 million shopping center with garden apartments, single homes and acres of green lawns. "This community will not be dominated by the auto," says Pereira. "It will be a walking community where women can stroll to the shops with their children just...
According to Lynch, the next step towards visual planning on a large scale is to form ad hoc committees of people with various backgrounds. By attempting to communicate with each other such committee may devise the graphic language needed to lift urban designing out of the stereotyped rut. They would also indicate the general form a city's development should take, be asserted...
...second problem Fabumi mention one of manpower. The Nigerians not educated for industry, and in the to the cities for education there is rapidly widening cultural gap between rural and urban areas...