Nation's Cities: Urban Affairs Portfolio (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Nation's Cities: Urban Affairs Portfolio This is the most urgent question facing urban America today. Everybody is talking about it, writing about it, making speeches about it. But the more they talk and write the greater the confusion about it seems to grow. Much of the talk seems to come from people who don't like cities and just want to get away from them; and too much of the talk comes from people who think the local needs and problems of our cities can only be solved from Washington. In the hope of bringing some order into all this confusion the National League of Cities joined The American Institute of Architects, the Lincoln Foundation, and the Luce magazines in sponsoring a roundtable conference of 33 experts described by N ew York's Mayor Lindsay as The Who's Who of Urban Development Purpose of the conference was not to seek new ideas and new solutions, but rather to explore how broad an area of expert agreement already exists behind all the seeming confusion. The roundtable panel represented many different disciplines and many different viewpoints. Perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not so surprisingly, the roundtable revealed a broad area of almost unanimous agree ment on almost every urban problem. No one panelist subscribed to every con elusion and every recommendation in the consensus. Nevertheless, this conference report reflects hundreds of comments and suggestions by the participants during the months which followed the original round table discussions. More than an expression of personal opinions and experiences, it stands as a collective document which attempts to confront honestly the widely diverse elements of the contemporary city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.