Abstract

One wonders how many more cities will have to go up in flames amid riot and bloodshed before people realizes that they have no choice, merely in terms of their own individual self-interest, but to rouse themselves from immersion in private pursuits and set about the job of putting things right. The author presents a proposal for the dramatic reconstruction of cities in the U.S. This is what needs to be done if people are to stop an accelerating trend towards virtual polarization of American society along primarily racial lines. The issues in the nation at large are more than just economic, and they reach far beyond the boundaries of cities. But a start must be made somewhere and it is in the interest of such a beginning, with full awareness, that the article presents certain proposal to solve this existing problem. The paradox of the time is that people are fully capable of rooting out the underlying causes of social disintegration without radical alteration of their institutional structure. The human, technological, and financial resources are at hand, as well as the knowledge and skill to use them. Yet people waver, hesitate, equivocate. One needs to rise above such negativism.