THE CITY'S CHALLENGE 

 IN RESOURCE USE 



^ Luther Gulick 



As a result of many complex forces we are now developing on this 

 continent a new pattern of urban settlement. We all know what it 

 looks like and feels like, because we live in it. In fact we are produc- 

 ing it. And we want it and like it, though we also shrink from some 

 of its aspects and suffer with its growing pains. 



The statistics and sophisticated analyses of this development have 

 not yet caught up with the realities of the situation. This relieves me 

 of giving a learned and documented treatise describing exactly what 

 is happening. But I do need to give an impressionistic statement of 

 the development as the background of what I have to say. 



LUTHER GULICK, President of the Institute of Public Administration, 

 is also Director of the Government in Metropolitan Areas project of the Edgar 

 Stern Family Fund, and EHrector of the New York Bureau of Municipal Re- 

 search (in public finance and taxation). From 1931 to 1942 he was Eaton 

 Professor of Municipal Science and Administration at Columbia University. A 

 former president of the Tax Research Foundation, Mr. Gulick has held several 

 special assignments with the United States Government, and has been counsel 

 for legislative committees and tax departments in various states. His writings, 

 which are numerous, include Administrative Reflections, World War II; Amer- 

 ican Forest Policy; and Modern Management for the City of New York. The 

 name Gulick, incidentally, was already famous at the turn of the century, when 

 Luther Halsey Gulick, uncle to the present Luther Gulick, pioneered in the 

 movement to develop for city boys and girls summer camps geared to an en- 

 riched educational experience in a natural setting. Luther Gulick was born in 

 Osaka, Japan, in 1892; received his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1920, and his LL.D. 

 at Whitman College (Wash.) in 1952. 



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