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nical Bulletins 40, 42, 50, and 52 of the Urban Land Institute of 

 Washington, D.G., American Society of Planning Officials of Chi- 

 cago, and American Conservation Associations publication Cluster 

 Development by William H. Whyte. 



Through artful application of this technique, developers can pre- 

 serve satisfying, fulfilling environments from our abundance of nat- 

 ural beauty by leaving untouched the vistas and atmosphere which 

 nature has provided. 



MICHAEL DOWER. Cities and suburbs are not two things : they are 

 part of one entity. The new suburbs are the cities of the future and 

 must be given not only the range of facilities but also the scale and 

 the beauty which we associate with cities : the existing cities must be 

 restructured and enhanced to acquire the grace and spaciousness 

 which we associate with suburbs. 



The key to each of these, which has been running through this dis- 

 cussion, is the idea put up by Mr. Gutheim in the Townscape panel 

 that the fabric of the city (or the suburb) is made of a warp of man- 

 made things and a woof of natural ones. The woof must be strong, 

 on two scales the large scale of rivers, flood plains, streamsides, 

 ridges, bays; and the small scale of trees and other native plants. 



To keep the woof on these two scales is not just a matter of beauty, 

 but a matter of hard concern for function and for land values that 

 physiographic determinism which David Wallace and Ian McHarg 

 have shown up so well in their recent plan for the Green Spring and 

 Worthington Valley. The principles of beauty-from-function which 

 Mr. Rouse has shown for Columbia must be jacked up to the metro- 

 politan scale to produce a framework for beauty both for the city 

 and for the new suburbia which is the future city. 



P. BRUCE DOWLING. I would like to comment on Mr. Hideo 

 Sasaki's remarks of "When in doubt, plant." This is also an obser- 

 vation on Michael Dower's suggestion that we might well think of 

 a goal of transplanting some 10 million big trees to our cities. 



We now have the technology in new power hydraulic large-tree 

 transplanting equipment. A mass tree-moving program using native 

 stock of 6 inch- to 10-inch diameters and up to 50 feet tall can be 

 programed by selective harvesting of live trees from natural second- 

 growth forests. Thus we can, with modern equipment, bring 

 relatively cheaply the countryside to the older suburbs and save 

 most of the trees in future suburban developments. 



