The Frame of Reference proximate future by the application of appropriate and existing knowledge, methods, and energies-physical and moral.
3. Achievements such as domestic architecture,
housing, health, and education, city, regional, state, and national planning and operation, already accomplished in particular areas, indicate the possibility, as well as the desirability, of creating
a civilization in the United States which combines utility and a:sthetics in a grand conception
of the potentialities in American life . 4. Moreover, achievements already accomplished in government, economy, and various
forms of associational life indicate that the Ameri-
can people possess co-operative and moral powers of a high order which can be directed into chan-
nels of utility and beauty, if acquisitive individualism, with all its cruder manifestations in gam-
bling, speculation, exploitation, and racketeering,
is subdued to the requirements and potentialities of the emerging society .
5. The cultural potentialities of the epoch
would seem to be commensurate with the eco-
nomic . On the physical foundations of economic 21