Notes:
Notes:
Text of a speech delivered, in large part, before the Construction Industries Committee, Los Angeles, Chamber of Commerce, 9/24/1947; this article reported on efforts in Southern California and Indianopolis, IN, to redevelop their cities to halt urban sprawl. "Decentralization is not a panacea for the ills of the modern city. On the contrary, when brought about , as it has so far been, by an effort on the part of individual families to run away from the consequences of past mistakes in community policies, instead of correcting them, decentralization merely spreads the diseases of traffic congestion, property instability and blight. It multiplies the seriousness of the difficulty fronting the community by increasing the area affected."