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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TURNS A PAGE The Depression nailed community developers as it did everybody else. A variety of mostly negative factors took the wind out

THE DECENTRALIZATION CRISIS The last chapter introduced Lewis Mumford. His advocacy within the famous New York City Regional Plan for new garden city-like suburbs resulted

FROM RURAL TO URBAN What is sometimes so obvious it is seldom mentioned, just automatically incorporated into one’s approach, is the change: a radical change

Evolution of Corporation Elites: The Committee for Economic Development American industrial production was number one on the planet; the manufacturing and transportation gazelles of yesteryear

 Big Cities: New Deal, war years Trite to say, the Depression years were tough on our Big Cities. In these awful years would—could—municipal and state

GROWTH Part I rests upon some form of growth (individual, firm, industry or jurisdictional size). That will be challenged, at least for Big Cities, in