Excerpts: For too many years too many people have crowded themselves into central cities—people attracted by the hope, often the illusion, of greater opportunity. As a result, our metropolitan areas have more people and problems than they can cope with. All around us they are exploding with violence. At the same time, many villages, small towns, and their surrounding countryside are being drained of people and economic vigor. This document outlines in broad terms the solution to this imbalance of people and opportunity: A new type of community, neither urban nor rural, but possessed with the highest values of both; a functional, multicounty Community of Tomorrow that blends the economic and cultural opportunities of affluent metropolitan life with the space and beauty of the countryside. These Communities of Tomorrow will make possible in both city and countryside a quality of civilization that fully reflects man’s aspirations and inventiveness. Rural improvement will make the urban improvement job easier.
