It seemed like a match made in planners’ heaven. In April 1934, Benton MacKaye, a pre‐eminent American planner and conservationist, came to work for the newly‐created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's foremost experiment in resource and regional planning. The match, however, proved much less harmonious and fruitful than initially envisioned. Within 26 months, the ties were broken and MacKaye was asked to leave the agency. By the fall of 1936, he was back in his ancestral home in Shirley Center, Massachusetts. This paper describes MacKaye's unique planning concepts and analyzes how his ideas differed from mainstream agency thinking. It examines how his influence within TVA quickly waned, except for his role as a friend and mentor for a small group of young agency staff members who shared his environmental ideals. Finally, the article will explore why MacKaye, despite his intriguing ideas (or maybe because of them) failed to have a lasting impact on agency policies.

Research Article| April 01 1990 Managing the Tennessee River: Principles, Practice, and Change Daniel Schaffer Daniel Schaffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1990) 12 (2): 7–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378685 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Daniel Schaffer; Managing the Tennessee River: Principles, Practice, and Change. The Public Historian 1 April 1990; 12 (2): 7–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3378685 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentThe Public Historian Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1990 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Next article No AccessArticlesManaging Water in the Tennessee Valley in the Post-War PeriodDaniel SchafferDaniel Schaffer University of Tennessee Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 13, Number 2Summer 1989 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Views: 2Total views on this site Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3984268 Views: 2Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in the Environmental Review (1976-1989), which was continued by the Environmental History Review (1990-1995). © 1989 American Society for Environmental History. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has been studied as the most important experiment in regional planning in the history of the United States. Many of the agency's administrative procedures, particularly related to planning, were established during the TVA's first decade of existence. The following article details the evolving TVA policy in the 1930s towards the purchase of reservoir land. As the TVA rapidly moved from a policy of outright purchase to one of retaining land in private hands with restrictive easements, it dramatically altered the nature of its regional planning activities. The outcome of this policy change would have important consequences not only for the TVA but also for the history of regional planning in the United States.

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