Date of Award
5-2013
Document Type
Capstone
Degree Name
Master of Community Planning and Development (CPD)
Department
Community Planning and Development
First Advisor
Mark B. Lapping
Keywords
John Wesley Powell, GeoTechnics and Regionalism, Regional Planning, Land use planning, History, Muskie School of Public Service
Abstract
John Wesley Powell and Benton MacKaye, each developed exceptionally comprehensive and innovative regional planning visions that had a great deal in common. They both were Jeffersonian idealists, who considered those who tilled the soil and worked the land for primary production a class of men above all the rest.
This paper will explore some of the fundamental theory behind the work of both Powell and MacKaye, as well as examples of the plans that they developed. It will become clear that the two men were working from very similar theoretical vantage points, though in relatively different socio-political eras. It will also be clear that the two men developed innovative and comprehensive plans that were eventually implemented – though in ways that likely would have (or did) disappointed them from the vantage point of a century later.
Recommended Citation
Cataldo, Nikkilee, "Geotechnics and regionalism: the lineage of thought from John Wesley Powell to Benton Mackaye" (2013). Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations. 67.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/muskie_capstones/67
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