Urban Law Annual ; Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law

Article Title

Model Cities: Liberal Myths and Federal Interventionist Programs

Authors

Judith Lynch Waldhorn, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Arthur Waldhorn, Princeton University

Publication Title

Urban Law Annual

Abstract

All federal community development efforts undertaken in the past twenty years have been based on a related series of "liberal" myths about the nature of social change. In succession, each program-from slum clearance to community action-has purported to seek to reform the intergovernmental system by intervening at some crucial point without supplying the resources to change it fundamentally. Model Cities is the most recent in this series of programs, and its history illustrates the scope and limits of the liberal "interventionist" approach.

Recommended Citation

Judith Lynch Waldhorn and Steven Arthur Waldhorn, Model Cities: Liberal Myths and Federal Interventionist Programs, 1972 Urb. L. Ann. 45 (1972)
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_urbanlaw/vol1972/iss1/4