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The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program: The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission (Urban Planning and Environment)

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. This system focused on development opportunities and problems across the array of TVA dams and their reservoirs. It also created new ‘model’ towns and pioneered land-use planning bringing together federal, state, and local agencies, farmers, foresters and industrial firms to further the economic, social, and physical conditions of what had been probably the most seriously lagging regions of the U.S. This book is in line with the memoirs and experiences of Aelred J. Gray, former planner with the TVA, who saw the ‘big picture’ and introduced much of the pioneering work of the agency. Gray worked as a group of workers planner on the TVA for almost 40 years including a decade as its chief planner, overseeing a large number of changes and developments to the Authority’s program. In addition to building up the regional industrial development and the foundation of state parks, he also had a strong interest in the region’s cities. In the 1950s he introduced TVA’s landmark Flood Prevention Program, which became a national model. His review of how this innovative and influential regional development agency functioned and changed through the decades might be of value to all those interested in planning practice, planning history, and regional politics.

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