Congress and New Towns

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(Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1971); Evans Clinchy, Schools? A Memorandum on the State of the Art of Educational Planning for Communities in the United States, Working Paper No. 1 (New York: Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., 1972); and Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Governance of Towns: Laboratories for Democracy, background paper by Royce Hanson (New York: The Fund, 1971). 4. Empirical studies of new community residents include: John B. Lansing, Robert W. Marans, and Robert B. Zehner, Planned Residential Environments (Ann Arbor: Research Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, 1970); Herbert J. Gans, The Levittowners (New York: Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1967); James A. Prestridge, Case Studies of Six Planned Towns in the United States (Lexington, Ky.: Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Kentucky Research Foundation, 1973); and Carl Werthman, Jerry S. Mandel, and Ted Dienstfrey, Planning and the Purchase Decision: Why People Buy in Planned Communities (Berkeley: Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Center for Planning and Development Research, University of California, Berkeley, 1965). i l , a.: National Technical Information Ser5. Communities Division, Community Resources Development Administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Survey and Analysis of Large Developments and Communities Completed or Under Construction in the United States Since 1947 (Washington, D.C.: The Department, February 1969). 6. Based on 1970 figures for active general practitioners, internists, pediatricians, obstetricians, and gynecologists, and estimated number of osteopaths, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Health Resource Statistics, DHEW Publication No. (HSM) 72-1509 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971). 7. For examples of this critique, see William Alonso and Chester McGuire, Pluralistic Towns, in Frontiers of Planned Unit Development: A Synthesis of Expert Opinion, Robert W. Burchell (ed.) (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1973), pp. 251-262; and David R. Godschalk, New Communities or Company Towns? An Analysis of Resident Participation in Towns, in Towns: Why-And For Whom?, Harvey S. Perloff and Neil C. Sandbert (eds.) (New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1973), pp. 198-220.