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...private citizen, Conservationist Udall may have far wider and more satisfying opportunities. Last week he announced the formation of the Overview Group, an international consulting firm that he will head. Overview is designed to deal with no less a problem than man's despoliation of the earth...
...There is today a worldwide crisis of the environment," says Overview's prospectus. "It stems from the extraordinary mass migration from rural to urban areas in all regions of the planet. It stems from a too rapid increase in population. It stems from helter-skelter urbanization in both the developed and underdeveloped nations. It stems from the abuse and misuse of the earth's resources. The Overview Group believes that the crisis of the environment is rooted in shortcomings-in failures of design, failures of planning, failures of politics...
...stifling environment that man is creating for himself can be halted and the trend reversed, Udall argues. However, the task involves an unprecedented degree of communication and cooperation among communities, cities, states and national governments, as well as corporations and foundations. Overview hopes to be the catalyst. Its undertakings could range from locating a factory in a rural area so that it would enhance rather than despoil the environment, to designing whole new cities and sanitizing polluted international waterways...
Talented Assistants. Udall has gathered an impressive group of men to assist Overview. Lawrence Halprin, a distinguished San Francisco architect and planner, will be chairman of the executive committee; Henry L. Kimelman, former assistant to Udall at Interior, will be president and treasurer. A group of 25 advisers will assist in developing Overview concepts, notably Architect I. M. Pei, Moshe Safdie, designer of "Habitat" at Canada's Expo 67, and Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia's extremely able city planner...
...especially true if the interested reader happens to be the Carnegie Corporation. To qualify, the problem-topic must be such a nature as to require collaboration. To each topic is devoted a whole issue of Daedalus. The editors consult a larger planning commission, usually associated with the Academy. The Overview Committee on the Goverance of Universities, for instance, met last April to plan a conference and volume on "Academic Ethics: Rights an Responsibilities." The Committee counts among its 15 members David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Martin Duberman, Talcott Parsons, Carl Kaysen, Neil Rudenstine, and two college presidents. They commissioned the articles...