Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atkins' lecture was the second in the series The Urban Crisis sponsored by the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...This urban segregation might not be as overt as the old Jim Crow system, Clark said, "but as long as the segregated education is unequal, can it make any difference what caused it? Musn't the law be that every school district in the U.S. has an obligation to end segregation--no matter what its cause...
...environment congenial and become word-of-mouth community advertisers. Particularly attractive to the residents is the fact that property taxes tend to stav relatively stable because the cost of infrastructure has already been calculated. New towns, of course, are by no means free from the problems that afflict urban areas everywhere. Some of Reston's teen-agers have taken to drugs and gone on sprees of vandalism. Residents of new towns outside of Stockholm refer to them as "sleeping cemeteries." Though Britons find that the new towns give them a greater sense of community, some inhabitants complain that living...
...towns can hardly solve the overwhelming problems of the central cities-problems whose gravity was underscored last week by Urban America and the Urban Coalition in a report that warned of increasing violence and racial polarization. But by accommodating a dizzyingly expanding population, they can at least ease the pressure on America's beleaguered metropolitan areas. Von Eckardt, for one, urges the building of 350 new towns for a total of 35 million people in the next few decades. That would account for more than one-third of the nation's anticipated population growth. What is more...
...mistake and the stony looks turned to embarrassed smiles, John decided to call it a day. Exhausted, nerves frazzled, he walked home-carefully skirting shadows. He took a trifle longer than usual to open his triple-locked door. The delay proved unfortunate. Before John could slither inside his urban fortress, three thugs lurking in the vestibule relieved him of his wallet, his watch and his girl friend's Protectalarm. Then, for good measure, they gave him a whiff of his own Mace...