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designers and architects as has Mr. Simon and others on the plat- 

 form. What I am talking about is this. We have had meetings on 

 roadside blight and water pollution and we are, I think, this after- 

 noon, addressing ourselves to land pollution. The roadside blight is 

 not natural and land pollution in suburbia is not natural. They 

 must be looked at, it seems to me, by this conference in very much 

 the same way as pollution. 



You and Mr. Simon are addressing yourselves to showing us good 

 examples of good design. It seems to me that the basic issue we are 

 facing is how your examples can be spread across the country; how 

 they can be used as illustrations of what to do in order to prevent 

 what not to do, which as all of us know is the common practice at the 

 present moment. 



I urge that the consideration that we give at this conference and 

 the recommendations to the President be couched in such a way that 

 it is quite clear that we are against land pollution in suburbia in the 

 same way as we are against land pollution in roadside blight and 

 water pollution across the country. 



EDWARD STONE. During this conference, it has been brought out 

 that this Nation has committed probably the most monumental 

 irresponsibility in history by building a country without plans. 



Now, to get plans we have to have them made. Obviously, it is a 

 responsibility of the Federal Government, the State, and the munici- 

 pality, and, of course, the individual. 



However, it seems to me that the advent of 80 million automobiles 

 in this country is really the root of all of our difficulties. 



Why? In a country that eulogizes private industry, the steel, the 

 rubber, the oil, the automobile industry, why do they not have more 

 responsibility to the people of this Nation to undertake plans, pilot 

 plans for the countryside, for the village, for the town, for the city? 



No word has been said about their monumental obligation to all 

 of us. 



WILLIAM SHAW. I would like to address my remarks to Mr. Sasaki. 



This morning Barbara Ward on the Education Panel made the 

 comment that the cities are growing at the rate of 8 percent a year 

 as against the suburban area of 4 percent and the country at 2 

 percent. So there is a tremendous explosion taking place in city 

 areas. 



I know this is a suburban panel but I would like to address my 

 remarks to the fact that Reston and Columbia are doing a fine job 



