1st Edition
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission
By David A. Johnson
Copyright 2005
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused on development opportunities and problems around the array of TVA dams and their reservoirs. It also... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the emergence of regional planning agencies in the United States; The first twenty years: the formulation of the TVA approach to regional planning and development, 1933-1953; TVA's second twenty years: the search for new directions in the regional planning and development program, 1953-1973; The rise of the corporate image and the managerial elite: effects on the regional development program, 1973-1994; Some reflections on TVA's experience as a regional development agency; Postscript; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
David A. Johnson is Professor Emeritus at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
’In an age when America's sprawling suburban landscape has become a permanent, yet ever-expanding, feature of U.S. society and culture, it is good to remember a time when alternative development strategies seemed possible. David Johnson's The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program, which draws on the experience of long-time TVA planner Aelred J. Gray, speaks to a time when the nation's endless suburban landscape had not yet been set in a sea of cement and split-level homes. It is well worth a look for readers interested in learning more about an era when planning and vision were not mutually exclusive terms.’ Daniel Schaffer, Trieste, Italy, Author of Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience
