A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
It seemed like a match made in planners’ heaven. In April 1934, Benton MacKaye, a pre‐eminent American planner and conservationist, came to work for the newly‐created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's foremost experiment in resource and regional planning.
The match, however, proved much less harmonious and fruitful than initially envisioned. Within 26 months, the ties were broken and MacKaye was asked to leave the agency. By the fall of 1936, he was back in his ancestral home in Shirley Center, Massachusetts.
This paper describes MacKaye's unique planning concepts and analyzes how his ideas differed from mainstream agency thinking. It examines how his influence within TVA quickly waned, except for his role as a friend and mentor for a small group of young agency staff members who shared his environmental ideals. Finally, the article will explore why MacKaye, despite his intriguing ideas (or maybe because of them) failed to have a lasting impact on agency policies.
It seemed like a match made in planners’ heaven. In April 1934, Benton MacKaye, a pre‐eminent American planner and conservationist, came to work for the newly‐created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's foremost experiment in resource and regional planning.
The match, however, proved much less harmonious and fruitful than initially envisioned. Within 26 months, the ties were broken and MacKaye was asked to leave the agency. By the fall of 1936, he was back in his ancestral home in Shirley Center, Massachusetts.
This paper describes MacKaye's unique planning concepts and analyzes how his ideas differed from mainstream agency thinking. It examines how his influence within TVA quickly waned, except for his role as a friend and mentor for a small group of young agency staff members who shared his environmental ideals. Finally, the article will explore why MacKaye, despite his intriguing ideas (or maybe because of them) failed to have a lasting impact on agency policies.
Benton MacKaye: The TVA years
Schaffer, Daniel (author)
Planning Perspectives ; 5 ; 5-21
1990-01-01
17 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
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