... political scientists, social workers, landscape architects, and engineers started to classify and analyse the problems of the city and lay the foundations for modern urban planning and urban studies. The 20th century was, in turn, the century of the public housing (inexistent before in America) and the suburbia transformation in America. Problems of the city became a prosperous industry for a number of scholars and reform-minded experts. In the United States there are two major kinds of government; either they are territorial and corporate including counties and states or they contemplate cities which have corporate governments, and their territorial boundaries are not rigidly set. On E. Monkkonen's definition, "American cities are more akin to the business corporation than to other governmental entities, being corporations, purely legal entities constitutionally protected 'persons', and a form of the private corporation".2 For him, cities are 'public' corporations and as such cannot quite do everything their ...

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