A Plea for Constructive Cooperation in City, County and Schoo Administration as Against the Proposed Policy of County Disruption (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Plea for Constructive Cooperation in City, County and Schoo Administration as Against the Proposed Policy of County Disruption A community like this should have plenty of elbow room. It should have space for growth and development now, and should not be cramped after it gets its growth. The question before the City Club today is whether this matter should be considered from the point of view of the present municipality of Los Angeles, or from the standpoint of Greater Los Angeles, which comprises thirty-seven incorporated cities, forty unincorporated cities, towns and villages, much thickly settled rural territory and a large area of mountainous and desert lands. It has always seemed to me that the county was here the real unit of local development, and the longer I study the problem, the more I am convinced that Los Angeles County, though nearly as large as the State of Connecticut, is not too large to be reserved for the habitation and control of the three or four million people who will make their homes in this area within half a century. Such a city or metropolitan district can easily occupy and utilize practically every foot of the San Gabriel, San Fernando and Antelope Valleys, our extensive coastal plain, the Santa Monica and Verdugo Mountains, and those parts of the Angelus and Santa Barbara forests which Los Angeles lie within the limits of this County Is One county. Feasible extensions of Great our boulevards, interurban and Community steam railways, jitney lines and An address before the City Club of Los Angeles, November 25, 1916. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.