November 1969 Issue [The Easy Chair] Planning for the second America Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Building the American city (Book) City planning Commission on Urban Problems National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty National Committee on Urban Growth Policy New towns Population The new city (Book) The people left behind (Book) United States Urban and rural America: policies for future growth (Book) Urban policy More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share