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- Title
PLANNING IN AN ERA OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION.
- Authors
Gross, Bertram M.
- Abstract
This article discusses the planning in the era of social revolution. Until recently, after organizing several empirical studies of planning in other countries, the author looked at planning in the United States in terms of certain important changes in his own lifetime: The fumbling efforts of the New Deal to develop a planned escape from the Great Depression; Large-scale World War II planning of economic production and military operations; The steady growth of long-range, corporate planning over the entire period from the 1920's to the present; The developer-speculator planning of the "march to the suburbs" and of inner-city "urban renewal," both serving the interests of business and upper-income groups; and the fascinating sequence of calculational techniques designed to assist in various tactical aspects of planning and control, particularly those associated with emerging computer technology. In the last few years the U.S. have had no shortage of actual crises. These are generally perceived as the threat of nuclear annihilation, the Black rebellion and white ethnic backlashes, student and youth revolts and drives for women's liberation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States politics &; government; METROPOLITAN areas; INVESTORS; PUBLIC administration -- Social aspects; SUBURBS; SOCIAL structure; URBAN policy; URBAN planning
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1971, Vol 31, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974887