CHAPTER 15 



THE NEW SUBURBIA 



1:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 25 



The Chairman, Mr. BEMISS. The subject of this panel is "The 

 New Suburbia." We have used this term to include both the urban 

 sprawl beyond the established metropolitan areas and the new 

 cities being built out in the open countryside on sophisticated, 

 advanced, and high-level design standards. 



A lot of what our panel will say about "The New Suburbia" has 

 been covered in earlier panels on the townscape, open spaces, parks, 

 roads, and education. 



This is not bad from our viewpoint, but it does illustrate that 

 suburbia is a formless and ill-defined, or undefined thing which can- 

 not be strictly and separately categorized. Suburbia is a little bit of 

 everything. 



The suburbia of the postwar years is maturing into the metro- 

 politan areas of today. It is no longer a peaceful escape from city 

 problems and concerns, but a deeply interdependent and fairly 

 specialized part of the metropolitan complex. 



Mr. Rouse was telling us that he estimates that one-half of the 

 Washington-Baltimore area population in 1985 will be living in 

 houses not yet built. This will give you some idea of the dynamics of 

 suburbia and the urgency of attention to it. 



In most of the United States, the metropolitan complex as part 

 of the larger megalopolitan area is a new condition, creating dynamic 

 problems and opportunities which must be dealt with positively if 

 we are to direct quantitative growth for qualitative results. 



Members of the Panel on The New Suburbia were FitzGerald 

 Bemiss (Chairman), Beverly Briley, Neil Connor, Frank Gregg, 

 Matthew Rockwell, James Rouse, Hideo Sasaki, and Robert E. 

 Simon. Staff Associate was Philip Larson. 



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