Tva's Public Planning

Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize (Society for American City and Regional Planning History) and Best Book Award (Southeast Society for Architectural Historians). < p/> At its outset, the Tennessee Valley Authority was a comprehensive public planning project for the economic and social revitalization of a major American region, undertaken in a time of depression and major technological advance. Traditionally, the TVA has been viewed as a unique response to special circumstances, largely lacking in historical precedents.