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Cities That Consume Men

Ward, Harold | January 22, 1938 issue

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The article discusses the American urban development. American cities are on the march. True, most of them do not know where they are going, and those that do are weighed down by such a pack of troubles-technical, economic, financial, administrative, and social-that their progress suggests comparison with those "Deserts on the March" so vividly portrayed for us by writer Paul B. Sears in his book of that name. Some twenty years ago, social reformer Patrick Geddes, one of the founders of the regional-planning movement, warned against the dangers of an urban development that neglected the fundamental question of balance between town and country.

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CITIES & towns -- Growth; MIGRATION, Internal; URBANIZATION; AUTHORS; SEARS, Paul B.; UNITED States
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