Ralph Borsodi: “President Roosevelt’s New Land and Population Policy” Year: 1934

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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844209.book-part-014

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Abstract

Thus spoke Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York in January 1932 at the completion of the Regional Plan of New York, putting into words a philosophy he had long cherished of a practical kind of regionalism which would bring producers and consumers together not in a city market, but on their own acres of farmland or rural village. A little over a year later, the former governor, the new president of the United States, with the aid of Congress established the machinery whereby his theories regarding a better way of life could be tried out. Indeed the most important development in connection with the present back-to-the-land movement is the fact that the present administration has committed the government to a new land and population policy.