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PLANNING NOTES AN INFORMATION PUBLICATION ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN GREENSBORO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING • GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA NUMBER 52 10 April 1967 GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY THE PRIMATE CITY Greensboro is a growth center. Between 1960 and 1965, the Greater Greensboro Area attained a population of 750,000. Look at a population map of North Carolina. Greensboro is the center of the largest population concentration in the state. The five county area surrounding Greensboro is almost as large as Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham combined. In fact, from Atlanta on the south to the nation's capital to the north,this five county concentration (Guilford, Forsyth, Davidson, Randolph and Alamance) is more populous than any comparable area. Milwaukee supported a championship baseball team with only a few thousand more people with which to fill "County Stadium" and Atlanta,though somewhat larger,displays the "Braves" to a packed house each weekend of the season. Green Bay fields the scourge of the National Football League and 50,000 people file into Packer Stadium on frozen Sunday afternoons to watch the home team perform. In Green Bay, 50,000 people equals about one-fifth of everybody in Northeastern Wisconsin. Seven hundred fifty thousand people are a potent force. A metropolitan area this size can support open heart surgery and chamber music. An area this large can offer its citizens a Marshall Fields or a Macy's. A major university, an art museum, off Broadway Theater — all are possible with 750,000 people to feed, clothe and entertain. Many cities of 750,000 have already begun to plan a rail rapid transit system in order that rush hour travel may be less grim. In fact, when students of urbanism speak of a growth center they refer to a node of population that continues to grow in spite of itself. Planning for an even larger population is therefore, a realistic endeavor in such an environment. Why, then, if the five county region surrounding Greensboro has attained growth center status, does Greensboro look and act like a town of one hundred thirty thousand instead of a city of three quarters of a million people? The answer is fragmentation. The Greensboro five county growth center consists of six suburbs in search of a city. The usual pattern is, of course, the primate central city surrounded by suburbs and satellites. Will it always be thus? Will we always be the Guilford, Forsyth,Davidson, Randolph, Alamance metropolitan area or will one of the cities in this five county area grow to become the primate city? We must confess that we do not know. No one can predict, with reasonable certainty, whether the area will grow in fragments, as in the past,or whether one of the cites is destined to become the central city for the five county region in question. We can say, though, that if destiny has an appointment with Greensboro, Greensboro must be ready to assume the status of primate City for the region. What makes a great tiful natural setting on a marsh. Historica much has ever happe National Capital? Nei are capitals. All gre have two characteris exciting downtown and lation close enough the taste and purchas it. city great? A beau- ? Amsterdam is built 1 importance? Nothing ned in Copenhagen. A ther Milan nor Munich at cities, though, do tics in common: An a middle class popu- to downtown and with ing power to sustain If we had to guess, we would go with Charles Abrams and agree that:"every suburb needs an urb". What is Greensboro doing to prepare herself, should destiny choose
Object Description
Title | Planning notes [Number 52, 10 April 1967] |
Date | 1967-04-10 |
Creator (group/organization) | Department of Planning, Greensboro, North Carolina |
Subject headings | Land use -- North Carolina -- Greensboro;Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century |
Topics | Planning |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | “The Primate City by Charles R. Hayes, the assistant director of planning about the potential of Greensboro being the center of the greater triad region with a population of over 750,000, and what that could mean for economic growth. Also includes a directory to officers of the planning board and zoning commission. |
Type | Text |
Original format | newsletters |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Department of Planning |
Language | en |
Contributing institution | Greensboro Public Library |
Source collection | Guilford Vertical Files (Greensboro Public Library) |
Folder | Planning -- City and County (2) |
Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
Additional rights information | NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT. This item is believed to be in the public domain but its copyright status has not been determined conclusively. |
Object ID | GPL_GVF.033.007 |
Date digitized | 2014 |
Digital access format | Image/jpg |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
OCLC number | 893991859 |
Page/Item Description
Title | Page 001 |
Full text | PLANNING NOTES AN INFORMATION PUBLICATION ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN GREENSBORO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING • GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA NUMBER 52 10 April 1967 GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY THE PRIMATE CITY Greensboro is a growth center. Between 1960 and 1965, the Greater Greensboro Area attained a population of 750,000. Look at a population map of North Carolina. Greensboro is the center of the largest population concentration in the state. The five county area surrounding Greensboro is almost as large as Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham combined. In fact, from Atlanta on the south to the nation's capital to the north,this five county concentration (Guilford, Forsyth, Davidson, Randolph and Alamance) is more populous than any comparable area. Milwaukee supported a championship baseball team with only a few thousand more people with which to fill "County Stadium" and Atlanta,though somewhat larger,displays the "Braves" to a packed house each weekend of the season. Green Bay fields the scourge of the National Football League and 50,000 people file into Packer Stadium on frozen Sunday afternoons to watch the home team perform. In Green Bay, 50,000 people equals about one-fifth of everybody in Northeastern Wisconsin. Seven hundred fifty thousand people are a potent force. A metropolitan area this size can support open heart surgery and chamber music. An area this large can offer its citizens a Marshall Fields or a Macy's. A major university, an art museum, off Broadway Theater — all are possible with 750,000 people to feed, clothe and entertain. Many cities of 750,000 have already begun to plan a rail rapid transit system in order that rush hour travel may be less grim. In fact, when students of urbanism speak of a growth center they refer to a node of population that continues to grow in spite of itself. Planning for an even larger population is therefore, a realistic endeavor in such an environment. Why, then, if the five county region surrounding Greensboro has attained growth center status, does Greensboro look and act like a town of one hundred thirty thousand instead of a city of three quarters of a million people? The answer is fragmentation. The Greensboro five county growth center consists of six suburbs in search of a city. The usual pattern is, of course, the primate central city surrounded by suburbs and satellites. Will it always be thus? Will we always be the Guilford, Forsyth,Davidson, Randolph, Alamance metropolitan area or will one of the cities in this five county area grow to become the primate city? We must confess that we do not know. No one can predict, with reasonable certainty, whether the area will grow in fragments, as in the past,or whether one of the cites is destined to become the central city for the five county region in question. We can say, though, that if destiny has an appointment with Greensboro, Greensboro must be ready to assume the status of primate City for the region. What makes a great tiful natural setting on a marsh. Historica much has ever happe National Capital? Nei are capitals. All gre have two characteris exciting downtown and lation close enough the taste and purchas it. city great? A beau- ? Amsterdam is built 1 importance? Nothing ned in Copenhagen. A ther Milan nor Munich at cities, though, do tics in common: An a middle class popu- to downtown and with ing power to sustain If we had to guess, we would go with Charles Abrams and agree that:"every suburb needs an urb". What is Greensboro doing to prepare herself, should destiny choose |