Fraternity-Testvériség, 1965 (43. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1965-01-01 / 1. szám

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA Edited by the Officers of the Federation

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Volume XLIII JANUARY 19S5 Number 1

MEGALOPOLIS — MESS OR MIRACLE?

(The source of this article is THE CHALLENGE OF MEGALOPOLIS, popular graphic summary by Wolf Von Eckardt of the Twentieth Century Fund’s original major study of MEGALOPOLIS: THE URBANIZED NORTHEASTERN SEABOARD OF THE UNITED STATES — by Jean Gottmann.)

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“The huge string of cities, suburbs and satellite areas along the eastern seaboard of the United States from north of Boston to south of Washington . . . the richest, largest and most productive urban region on earth” . . . this is Megalopolis.

“An environment so polluted with ugliness that one foreign observer has called it ‘the mess that is man-made America’ ”... this also is Megalapolis.

With the most advanced hospital and medical facilities available on this earth, the “gains in health are imperiled by smog, air pollution, lack of accessible outdoor recreation and playgrounds.”

With the most modern streets and highways, the hazards of uncontrolled automobile traffic are becoming an increasing problem while gains in leisure are imperiled by long, tiresome hours of commuting.

So says the Twentieth Century Fund’s new report, “The Challenge of Megalopolis”, written by Wolf Von Eckardt and based on the Fund’s original study, “Megalopolis”, by Jean Gottmann. The new 126-page,

graphically illustrated book, which was recently published for the Fund by The MacMillan Company, sums up the dilemma of living in Megalopolis this way: “The increased comforts and beauty IN our homes are largely offset by the lack of amenities and beauty in the cities, suburbs and along the highways AROUND them.” The impact of all

this on people has created a widespread problem so new that it has

required a new expressions — the concern for “mental health”. The author points out that this is the result of a society intent upon adjusting people to an environment instead of adjusting the environment to the people.

Yes, all this and more is Megalopolis.