Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Urban Structure...
McKinnell thinks the building contributes to the urban structure of the campus. "It does not stand out as an isolated monument," he said...
...citizens filing the suit charge the MBTA, the Urban Mass Transportation Authority (which allocated nearly half a billion dollars for the extension) and the contractors with violating the National Environmental Policy Act, the Department of Transportation Act and the Urban Mass Transportation...
...best way to show people alternatives to their miserable lives, and it also gives them tools needed when they manage to escape poverty. But without a means to escape, the desire to do so can be more frustrating than productive. Escape can lead a person either to urban areas of his country or to another country altogether. Galbraith contends that mass exodus from impoverished rural areas benefits the rural residents who remain by giving them more land per capita, aids urban areas by providing industrial labor, and even helps more developed countries by providing migrant workers for jobs too menial...
GALBRAITH is quick to say that migration is not the only answer; any attack on poverty must be fought on several fronts. But he is very vague about ways to escape to the industrial sectors of a nation. He is convinced that urban poverty is less intractable than rural poverty although he does not quite say why. His best points about industrialization reduce to the platitudes that developed countries of all political leanings have given each other the wrong advice about ways to attract industry, and that more research is needed to determine the correct advice...