Cities in Trouble—What Can Be Done

Q  Is there any limit to the size of a city that can be rebuilt? How about New York, for example?

A  The basic approach is the same. The difference is that the very big city center will consist of more cells than a small one.

Q  Do you visualize the reshaping of cities as being cone by private capital or out of tax revenue?

A  There will be a mixture of those two things. Only where the combination of private and public action is fully effective will we be successful.

Q  How about rapid-transit systems? Will they be operated by private enterprise, or by the city government?

A  I believe that public transportation is just as much as public service as the police department, the sewage system, the schools or the roads. It is in the nature of public services that they cannot be successfully operated in the framework of the profit motive.