SustainabiliTank: Would have Phoenix, Oshkosh, or at least Philadelphia, have been a better location for a UN thinking about focusing the attention of its staff on the work they were hired to do

Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on February 15th, 2013
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)

From the UN Wire of the UN Foundation:

UN was headed to Philadelphia, but a Rockefeller stepped in
The book “Capital of the World” chronicles the search for a home for the United Nations headquarters after World War II and the nearly 250 U.S. cities that were candidates. The West Coast, South and Midwest were eventually rejected in favor of the Northeast, with Philadelphia a leading contender until the Rockefeller family offered to buy the land in New York on which the UN now stands, writes Alex Gallafent. PRI’s The World (Boston)

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