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During the 1970s there were serious concerns in the U.S. Congress and the development community about rapid urbanization and poverty in developing countries and about global energy shortages, opening up both the need and the opportunity to pioneer new solutions. This is the story of how a scrappy but determined team of policy makers and researchers established a small office at the US Agency of International Development and created a legacy of energy and resource programs, planning and management solutions, and answers to rapid urbanization and poverty.