Suburban Development Districts: A Proposal for Better Urban Growth

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Abstract
Rapid urbanization, especially since the war, has produced major problems-unnecessarily high costs, poor public services, and wasted land. The most likely prospect is for further continuation of past trends and further intensification of these problems; yet the possibilities, legal and physical, exist for much better forms of urban growth. Here a new form of institution is suggested, aimed at these problems: a special unit of local government, the suburban development district, with very broad legal and economic powers, to operate through the development period only. The legal powers and programs of state and federal governments should be coordinated and directed toward the solution of these problems and should operate through district programs.

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