PAPER 7

Attacking urban blight: replanning or new towns?

WE are faced with the task of building a second America, of

duplicating all the urban areas, within a single generation.

What our forefathers did in three hundred years, we have to do

in thirty: such is the inescapable arithmetic of the population

explosion, which has forecast a population increase of 100 million

people by the end of the century. It seems an unthinkable, and

expensive, mistake to force these future citizens to live in our

present cities. Yet that is precisely where they will end up if

present trends are permitted to continue.