Central planning. Stalin had five year plans. Met Council has 30 year plans - i.e. Stalin had a bigger plate but presumed a shorter planning horizon as within reasonably foreseeable forecasting capability.

Yet, a genre is a genre. How central a level of planning makes sense, from appointed bureau members and their staff, in light of diversity being good for an area of multiple counties and pressures for homogeneity should always be questioned.

strib: here.