Excerpt from Urban Growth and Development: A Problem ApproachPsychologically we have been a nation which has been expansionist and optimistic where economic matters are con cerned. This is partly a re¿ection of attitudes developed in the process of pushing back the physical frontier. But it is also a re¿ection of one of the most uninhibited expressions of free enterprise known to the modern capitalist world. This has meant that the desirability of growth, particularly quantitative growth, has been taken for granted. Those counseling caution have not only been in the minority but have been considered somewhat disloyal to the dominant economic and materialist philosophy.Keeping in mind that cities are the focal point and machinery of expression of this national economic philosophy, are there any current indications of change?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.