The decade covered in this report opened with the beginning of work on the New York Metropolitan Region Study, or, as it is more commonly called, the Harvard Study - an economic and demographic inquiry into how the Region functions and where it is headed. It closes in the last stages of preparation of the Second Regional Plan, which will set out alternatives to the less-than happy long-range trends projected by the Harvard Study. The Plan is designed to guide the day-to-day decisions that shape the Region.
During this decade, Regional Plan Association has 1) evolved a process of regional planning that pioneers in a still new field; 2) arrived at and disseminated a number of fundamental conceptions of good regional development that have become widely understood and accepted; and 3) applied these conceptions to influence many specific decisions by officials at all levels of government and by business and civic organizations.
