The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration.

In Kristen Larsen's contribution on the RPAA and the Regional Development Council of America (RDCA), she notes that Mumford's RPAA history also marked the fiftieth anniversary of Howard's I Garden Cities i book. 2023 marks the 100-year anniversary of the first meeting of the Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) on 18 April 1923 in architect Robert D. Kohn's office in the Manhattan 1913 Goupil Building on 56-58 West 45th Street in New York City. Mumford uses the RPAA twenty-fifth anniversary to extend invitations to the Southern regionalists and California regionalists to form sub-chapters of the new Regional Development Council of America. The thought experiment is rich with RPAA thought inserted into today's urbanist challenges, with Talen's concluding point that the RPAA would likely 'still be fighting against a neoliberal, urban boosterism that ... remains the dominant ideology'. [Extracted from the article]