National Resources Board: A Report on National Planning and Public Works in Relation to Natural Resources and Including Land Use and Water Resources with Finding and RecommendationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 455 pages |
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Page 81 - Coordination within an enterprise is the result of careful planning by experts; coordination among independent enterprises cannot be said to be planned at all; rather is it the unplanned result of natural selection in a struggle for business survival. Coordination within an enterprise has a...
Page 2 - Board which may be expected, if carried thru, to [1] Provide for the systematic development of our water resources for purposes of sanitation, power, industrial uses, transportation, recreation, domestic consumption, and other collateral uses on a far higher level than ever before. [2] Remove the recurring menace of great floods and vast losses to persons and property. [3] Reduce the heavy losses of soil caused by uncontroled erosion.
Page 2 - ... aid in raising the standards of living in many agricultural regions. 5. End the wasteful use of our mineral resources and substitute a national policy of mineral conservation. 6. Make available large areas of land for purposes of popular recreation. 7. Assemble basic data in regard to mapping, public finance, and population, necessary for national planning. 8. Avoid the extravagance caused by failure to coordinate public works - Federal, State and local; bring about better programming of socially...
Page 6 - Coordination of planning policies between Federal, State, and local jurisdictions. (c) Stimulation and assistance to the planning agencies within the Federal Government and In regions, States, and localities. (d) Fundamental research directed toward the development of basic national policies and programs.
Page 86 - State, or local service — by public or private 01 quasi-public agencies. Appropriate powers of factfinding and facilities for plan analysis would be granted to the Board. At present no such national agency exists and there is often serious difficulty in obtaining the necessary data regarding important plans or projects in actual operation among 175,000 governmental bodies and many other quasi-public groups, industrial, research or otherwise. A mere card catalog of all projects would be of little...
Page 84 - Indeed, it may be found that some of those who cry "regimentation" when public planning is mentioned foresee interference with their own practices of private regimentation and exploitation of otherwise helpless persons under their private control. Those with special privileges to protect and preserve naturally object to any public planning that may dislodge them from a preferred position where they are able to exact tribute from their fellow men...
Page 3 - Squaring out or blocking up delinquent tax areas in cooperation with States enacting suitable legislation concerning State and county titles to tax delinquent lands.