An historical examination of the Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA), an association of urban and industrial planners formed in 1923 and disbanded in the late 1930s after a long
period of influence on the US landscape. The RPAA members had significant impact on urban and regional planning and are duly profiled along with their major projects and ideas, including the
emergence of community housing in World War I, Benton MacKaye's rural reconstruction, Lewis Mumford's efforts to advance planning idealism, regional planning in New York state under Alfred E.
Smith, and the controversial early years of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
