ABSTRACT
The efforts of various core cities to achieve a federal union with their suburbs prompted the National Municipal Review to devote its entire issue in August 1922 to one long article by Professor Charles C. Maxey on this subject. The modern nation finds in its cities the focal point of much that is threatening and much that is promising in the life of its people. The federal census of 1920 gives Boston a population of 748,060 and ranks Boston as the seventh city of the United States, but Boston newspapers and civic organizations insist that the true magnitude and importance of their city are not indicated by the census figures. The disadvantages of disintegration and the corresponding advantages of unification have not received adequate consideration in Cleveland and her suburban satellites, and consequently the movement for consolidation has made little progress. Leaders of capital and labor often locked horns, then separated in disgust.
