ABSTRACT
The era following World War II in which Tunnard taught at Yale began with vigour and excitement in the planning field as new federal programmes sprang to life in a national effort to meet the housing needs of the veterans, the pent-up civilian housing demand as well as the challenges of the new suburbanisation and of the decay of the older cities. The federal government launched a new Veterans’ Administration and stepped up Federal Housing Administration mortgages, and later a rash of programmes like planning assistance to states and cities, urban renewal, model cities, park acquisition funds, and the massive interstate highway programme.
