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colloquialisms. Childs’ outdoor audiences will remain unaware of all this, but the confrontation was overdue and is now competently deployed with conscientious completeness. And with a scholarly fringe of appendices, footnotes, ibids and passims withal !

Childs has gotten cocksure in his old age and this friendly head-washing may do him a lot of good!

R.S.C.

Metropolitan Leadership COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP : THE RE-

GIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORR. By Forbes B. Hays. Columbia University Press, New York 10027, 1965. vi, 190 pp. $6.00.

The significance of the establishment by the Regional Plan Association of New York in June of an inter-university committee on urban research and edu- cation, and the decision to appoint a small staff to work with the region’s universi- ties on urban research and education pro- grams (see page 453), cannot be appreci- ated fully without an understanding of the 36 years of “search and trial” by RPA to find its proper role in metropol- itan community leadership. Forbes B. Hays’ study traces the development of the association’s institutional role and thereby serves to bring RPA’s new role into proper perspective.

RPA, according to the author, had been handicapped from its inception in 1929 by “built-in tendencies toward tech- nical dominance” which had resulted from the enormously complicated environment in which R P A has functioned in the New York metropolitan complex. Lacking a metropolitan polity, R P A has experi- enced difficulty in finding a way to main- tain an ongoing policy development proc- ess except through research.

After a “mild promotional role” in the 1930s, it was not until 1960 that the asso- ciation was able to evolve a program de-

voted equally to research and to the or- ganization of regional leadership. Its initial regional plan, for example, was pro- moted among the region’s public authori- ties and leading citizens only after its promulgation. In its present planning, however, R P A is “making a systematic attempt to involve in the planning proc- ess a broad spectrum of metropolitan community interests,” even in the pri- mary stages of defining the goals.

RPA‘s vehicles for the involvement of the public consist of study groups and development committees which are de- signed to serve as a “rough substitute” for the non-existent metropolitan polity. “RPA hopes that it will be able to iden- tify a relatively small number of key de- cisions that, while perhaps not effectuat- ing its recommendations completely, might partially realize them and create choice situations where local governments would have more incentives to follow the plan than not.”

“The decline of RPA’s leadership role [in early years had] demonstrated,” ac- cording to Professor Hays, “that leader- ship on a regional scale must be more than an afterthought to research.” He envisions the more recent approach as a genuine opportunity for the Regional Plan Association whose function in the field of planning in the metropolitan area he considers essential.

ROBERT G. SMITH Drew University Madison, New Jersey

The Governor THE NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR: A STUDY

IN POLITICAL POWER. By Duane Lockard. D. Van Nostrand Company, 120 Alexan- der Street, Princeton, New Jersey, 1964. xv, 153 pp. $3.95.

POLITICS AND LEGISLATION: THE OF- FICE OF GOVERNOR IN ARIZONA. By Roy Morley. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 196.5. Viii, 135 pp.