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
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Chapter 10: From Rural to Urban, the Early New Deal: Our Cities and Feds Lead in Workforce ED
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
Chapter 10: Evolution of Corporation Elites: The Committee for Economic Development
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
Chapter 10: Northern Big Cities Depression, New Deal and War Years: Overview, Federal Programs, La Guardia, and Depression Chamber of Commerce
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
Chapter 10: the Pivot to Part II: From Growth to The Winds of Depression, War, and Victory, 1930–1961
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
Chapter 9: the Suburbs in the 1920’s, Growth, Central Cities Deal with a Growing Suburbia, J.C. Nicholls and his Kansas City Mall and Country Club
SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT SUBURBS? Sociologist R.D. McKenzie in 1933 commented that Big Cities were surrounded by growing suburbs/unincorporated areas; acknowledging new economic, political
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