Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
Athens Apex. The talk starts smoothly at the reception Doxiadis gives on the evening before embarkation. His triplex apartment is on the highest rooftop on the highest street in Athens. His guests look out on painfully appropriate urban contrasts: from marble-and-plate-glass luxury across the charmless sprawl of the modern city to the ruined perfection of the floodlit Parthenon. This year former Democratic Senator William Benton was holding court on a huge sofa, playing the part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase...
...huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will to act. We do have the resources, but you are living in tomorrow. The victims exist today...
...informed, influential people and giving them time to teach and invigorate one another. Much of the payoff occurs between the regular sessions when the participants freely exchange new ideas and form new intellectual friendships. Delos may be pretentious; it is also fun, and the experience is bound to affect urban crises throughout the world...
...median U.S. family income is still only $7,974 a year. According to the Labor Department, an urban family maintains a "poor" standard of living at $5,915 a year, while a "moderate" standard of living requires...