- Series
- The next fifty years
- Air Date
- 1968-07-01
- Duration
- 00:29:53
- Episode Description
- This week, a discussion concerning the necessity and difficulty of planning for a future society as well as an analysis of a new factor in American society: technology. Speakers: Swedish socio-economist Karl Gunnar Myrdal, author of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy; and writer and social critic David Bazelon, author of Power in America: the Politics of the New Class, who argues that the individuals who staff industrial bureaucracies of the industrial order are part of a new socioeconomic class.
- Series Description
- A series of lectures recorded in Autumn, 1967 at the American Institute of Planners Conference, Washington, D.C. The emphasis is on projected urban needs for the next fifty years, including city planning, housing, architecture, recreation, and transportation.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WAMU-FM (Radio station : Washington, D.C.) (Producer)
- Contributors
- Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987 (Speaker)Bazelon, David T., 1923- (Speaker)Greenwood, Bill (Host)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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