Word: urbanologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pioneering residents are delighted with their tranquil, crime-free existence but are concerned about the changes that the tramway and a subway connection-planned for 1984 -will bring. Chief Planner Diane Porter, 34, a savvy urbanologist who has worked on the island since 1971, has no such fears. "We are not just renting apartments," she says, "we are renting a whole lifestyle. It's a very small town, and you have to like people to live here. It's not the cold, anonymous place people think New York is." Meaning that no man who lives...
More immediately, higher taxes will drive middle-class people and businesses out of New York. "This migration has been going on a long time," says George Sternlieb, an urbanologist at Rutgers University. "Now the flow is a stampede." In the first nine months of 1975, the city has lost 193,000 jobs...
...Urbanologist Edward Banfield and others see a slippery morality emerging from the 1960s: the idea that disadvantaged groups "have a kind of quasi right to have their offenses against the law extenuated, or even to have them regarded as political acts reflecting a morality 'higher' than obedience to the law." Says Gerald Caplan, director of the research branch of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration: "Is the black fellow who steals a car a victim of society or its enemy? Is Spiro Agnew a political victim or a predator on society? People have varying answers...
James Q. Wilson, 43. His Harvard title is Professor of Government, but Wilson is a criminologist, a sociologist and an urbanologist as well. During the '60s, he wrote a book a year on subjects like the civil rights movement, the war on poverty, campus unrest, police behavior and urban politics. Wilson, presently a consultant to the Drug Enforcement Administration, was born in Denver, graduated from California's University of Redlands and the University of Chicago, has taught at Harvard since 1961. Having just
SCAPEGOATS. One result of the embargo has been a search for villains. The Federal Government has been accused of bureaucratic bungling, and environmentalists of obstructionism. But by far the most blame has been heaped on the oil companies, largely because of their record profits. Urbanologist Irving Kristol of New York University noted one reason: the corporation "is just about the only institution in American society without a constituency. Most institutions have someone who will rally around them when they get into trouble. Corporations have not." Even most of the companies' stockholders are uninterested, Kristol said. "They are speculators. They...