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We were crowding together faster than we were learning to live together. We were urbanizing faster than we were civilizing. Hence the problem of the city, and hence the shame of the cities. We accepted the growth of the cities and its strain on a governmental machinery devised largely for rural conditions as a matter of fate. It had to be. We tried At to alleviate the conditions accompanying this growth of cities. We tried to palliate them. We tried to prevent them by stemming the tide city-wards and by a back-tothe-farm movement. But it proceeded not only with unabated, but with increased momentum. It was irresistible. It had to be. We felt, too, that city governed ment was incapable of dealing with the problem growing vout of the urbanization of population and that it could )not be other than incompetent and ineffective palliative 0at best. Our point of view has changed. We have outgrown our fatalistic belief. Fate either as the agent or the explanation of the process of city-making is rejected. The challenge of the city is accepted. Society is taking a constructive view. The city is a potential agency of public welfare. I ts only excuse for being is that it is actually an instrumentality of public welfare and efficient in carrying out the public purpOS It was thought for a while that our social salvation might be achieved through improved social mechanism.
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