(“An Appalachian Trail, A Project in Regional Planning” by Benton MacKaye, 1921.)
ERE IS enormous undeveloped power -- the spare time of our population. Suppose just one percent of it were focused upon one particular job, such as increasing the facilities for the outdoor community life. This would be more than a million people, representing over two million weeks a year. It would be equivalent to 40,000 persons steadily on the job.
The Metropolitan invasion ... is spreading, unthinking, ruthless. Its substance consists of tenements, bungalows, stores, factories, billboards, filling-stations, eating-stands, and other structures whose individual hideousness and collective haphazardness present that unmistakable environment which we call the “slum.” Not the slum of poverty, but the slum of commerce. (“The New Exploration” by Benton MacKaye, 1928.)
