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to encourage private entrepreneurial development of new communi- 

 ties meeting acceptable standards. 



Next is the tremendous need for education on the nature and 

 growth of the metropolitan area, so that we understand the physical 

 structure of the environment and its economics. 



Many decisions are being made on the basis of a misunder- 

 standing, or no understanding at all, and ignore the fantastic dy- 

 namics which Barbara Ward was talking about this morning. 



Each community and region should, like the Nation, have a 

 policy on the protection and wise use and development of natural 

 resources and amenities as the basis of shaping and developing the 

 new suburbia. 



Our basic feeling was that emphasis really should be put on local, 

 regional initiative and understanding rather than just on a massive 

 Federal program to straighten it all out. 



Mr. ROUSE. Over the next 20 years, as Mr. Bemiss has indicated, 

 our country will grow by some 70 million people, and all of this 

 growth will occur in our major metropolitan areas. The cities will 

 account for our total growth. We will become, in our lifetime, 

 essentially an urban nation. In this period of time, Baltimore will 

 add a city bigger than San Diego, Denver, or Dallas to its population 

 and Washington will add a city bigger than Baltimore. 



Our cities now grow really by chance, by whim, by disorder; and 

 the result is ugliness and conflict and drabness and monotony with 

 neither solitude nor community to be found consistently in our 

 suburbs. 



Both nature and man are the losers in this conflict. This becomes 

 a deadly serious matter because a strong case can be made for the 

 assertion that the future of our civilization will depend upon the 

 kinds of communities in which we grow our people. 



Suburban sprawl is unnecessary and is advocated by no one. It 

 is a product of national indifference or national neglect. 



We can provide for the growth of our cities with communities 

 that respect the land and are designed to provide a full, rich, and 

 varied life for the people who live there. 



The means for doing this are neither mysterious nor complex. 



Mr. Simon is already doing this in Reston, and we are attempting 

 to do it in Columbia. 



Let me describe our plan for Columbia. 



