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Regional Planning Association of America  

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  • The Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) was a loosely organized group of architects, planners, and other diverse professionals who developed innovative theories and practices of housing, community design, and regional planning. Envisioned by the architect and planner Clarence Stein (1882–1975) as a city-planning research and advocacy group and based in the New York City area, the RPAA was formed in 1923, and its work was concentrated in a single decade. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Regional Planning Association of America]

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