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However, the main reason for not considering the reduction of 

 population growth as a "solution" of the problem I am discussing is 

 that the evidence indicates that urbanism wiU go right on developing 

 in the United States, regardless of population growth. The new pat- 

 tern of agglomeration comes not primarily from population pressure 

 but from other forces which have been set forth recently and do not 

 need to be reviewed here.-" 



Accordingly I start with the acceptance of the proposition that 

 urbanization will go forward on this continent, along the lines indi- 

 cated, for the foreseeable future, and that the increasing resource 

 pressures we have identified will become more and not less severe as 

 we shift more and more into the urban pattern of social and eco- 

 nomic settlement. 



I repeat, "What can we do about this situation?" 



Three things, it seems to me. The first is to develop better knowl- 

 edge as to the new patterns of urban need. The second is to develop 

 in urban man a new awareness of his relation to the world of nature 

 and to convince him of the moral necessity of sustaining human life 

 more and more from the renewable resources, rather than from the 

 limited and exhaustible accumulations. Third is to take public and 

 private action to develop and enforce such a system of life. 



My assumptions as to the unique urban impacts on resources need 

 to be explored. In some cases, we need new statistical and census 

 categories as the basis for understanding.-^ In other cases, the facts 

 are there, but they have never been analyzed from the point of view 

 here suggested. 



The whole business of the costs and the economies of scale in 

 urban life needs careful accumulation and review. In this the co-oper- 

 ation of business will be needed; there also must be more penetrat- 

 ing family cost-of-living data, geared to the various patterns of urban 

 Hfe. 



These studies are called for not solely as an aid in developing 



-" Coleman Woodbury, "Economic Implications of Urban Growth," paper 

 delivered at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, December 1957; Gulick, op. cit. 



21 Stuart A. Rice, "Statistical Programming for Problems of Urban Ag- 

 glomeration," paper delivered at the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, December 1957. 



