home environments.9
Another thing which the founders of the New York Regional Plan decided to do in the 1920s was to survey the basic industries in the New York region so that they could determine which industries were leaving the city and which industries were staying so that "broad regional population trends could be projected and the regional whole adjusted to shifting industrial trends."10 The people involved with the Regional Plan also set out to solve the problem of automobile traffic congestion. By the early 1920s, New York City's metropolitan area had 540,000 registered motor vehicles; by 1926, the figure had grown to more than 1.3 million, which caused massive traffic jams on downtown streets during the day and on colonial highway routes during weekends. To combat the problem, New York's city planners distributed cheap single-family homes along the established rapid-transit lines and motor roadways and then replanned the deteriorated central areas by opening up new traffic ways and creating new open spaces which would enhance existing property
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