Book Review: Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning in Appalachia

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  • Crews, Jean
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
Abstract
  • Social and economic planning in Appalachia has long been prefaced on the assumption that the region is a poverty-stricken subculture of the greater, more affluent nation. As urbanization and industrialization have provided for the wieldy development of the greater nation, so the thinking has been, the same process could likewise enrich Appalachia. Trapped in this mindset, posits Whisnant in Modernizing the Mountaineer , planners launched an urban-industrial campaign for this 'backward area' predicated on inappropriate and unexamined assumptions. Failing to recognize the consequences of discounting socio-cultural uniqueness, planners instinctively prescribed the urban-industrial development model as a cure for the lagging economy. Each of the three main sections of the book addresses a particular application of this regional development model. Part I examines the Council of Southern Mountains, an 'umbrella' organization for non-secular Appalachian development. Parts II and III analyze federal and state/sub-state programs, respectively. Through case studies , Whisnant traces for the reader the evolution of planning in Appalachia.
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  • Journal Item
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  • In Copyright
Journal title
  • Carolina Planning Journal
Journal volume
  • 8
Journal issue
  • 1
Page start
  • 47
Page end
  • 48
Language
  • English
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  • Carolina Planning Journal

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