Abstract

THE EXPANSION OF EXISTING and the creation of new Army, Navy, and industrial establishments, with the resulting concentration of population in hundreds of places throughout the country in carrying on activities essential to the national defense, has brought to the fore many problems of planning and providing services never before experienced by American communities. With many communities doubling in population and with the building of entirely new towns and cities, transportation facilities and the usual governmental services, if available at all, have proved to be inadequate. Many serious problems are simultaneously confronting us in connection with the provision of facilities necessary to community life. Activities of the federal government in its defense program have caused an unprecedented migration of personnel to Army, Navy, and industrial establishments. In many of the localities experiencing this defense impact, essential community services are not available. Our attention has quickly been drawn to the fact that these essential community services cannot be made available by state and local governmental entities. The federal government has found it necessary to lend its assistance.

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