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There is little agreement on the best way to restructure local government, and Moynihan vacillates accordingly. The metropolitan sprawl, he recognizes, has made it "difficult to collect power in one place." This leads him at first to espouse annexing the suburbs. Later on, he opts for community control and decentralization. Soon he is also stressing the responsibility of the states, and, in a final dizzy burst, ends up praising the sensibleness of county government. Instead of conserving political energies, Moynihan seems to suggest that reformers pursue all these goals simultaneously...
Having invented urban sprawl, Californians may be among the first to find ways of revitalizing and rebuilding the inner cities. Los Angeles, with its stubborn refusal to invest in efficient rapid transit, may yet be obliged to give up the automobile and go to subways; for a model, there will be San Francisco's computer-controlled BART (Bay Area Transit) system, which is, after many years, now within reach of completion...
...Urban Coalition, said last week in Washington, "until we reach a final state of affluent misery -Croesus on a garbage heap." Slower economic growth, which is part of the Administration's recipe for battling inflation, might also help to improve the deplorable condition of cities by checking urban sprawl and pollution from autos and factories. But slowed growth exacts a toll from the poor. Another antidote is rising productivity-in Government, in the executive suite, and most especially in the service industries. If the U.S. is to retain prosperity while curbing inflation, more incentives to economic efficiency...
McHarg's plan for the unspoiled area just northwest of Baltimore was even more impressive. With 44,500 acres of farms and country estates, the area was a natural target for tract developers and subdividers. Even so, McHarg turned "progress" from sprawl to beauty: his plan concentrated all developments on hills and plateaus, leaving the valleys open forever. Endorsed by landowners and the city, the scheme opens the area to 83,000 new residents by 1990 -without helter-skelter destruction of the rolling countryside. Going on from there, McHarg's firm recently completed another enlightened development plan...
...Sudan's three rebellion-wracked southern provinces sprawl across the turbulent boundary line between the Arab world to the north and Black Africa to the south. It is in these provinces, where the grassy savannah meets the tropical forest, that the clash between the two worlds has been bloodiest. Africa's largest country in terms of area, the Sudan is dominated by the 9,000,000 Arabs of the north; the south's 4,000,000 blacks have long felt ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black...