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In such new great cities, intellect and art, industry and labor, can 

 join forces in the development of idealized institutions dedicated to 

 the furtherance of man's highest welfare. 



In these days, when, in the lifetimes of many of us here, man's 

 oldest and wildest dreams have become commonplace realities, who 

 dares to claim that Utopias are forever unattainable? 



We have the means, the resources, the know-how. We have the 

 most urgent need, and finally in the population increase, we have the 

 occasion. Many able and dedicated men and women await only 

 a decision to begin this great task. 



Paradoxically, it emerges by the application of cybernetic theory, 

 or of holist philosophy, that it is practical, and relatively easy, to 

 solve all the major problems of our day simultaneously by a new 

 positive all-embracing concept; whereas, since they are all inter- 

 connected, it is essentially impossible to solve them individually, one 

 at a time. I offer this proposition as food for thought to those of us 

 here that are, as politicians should be, concerned with the art of the 

 possible. Our newly emerging interconnected world demands a 

 new kind of interconnected thinking. 



The program of new large cities of which I first spoke is just such 

 a holist concept. 



In such a city, every factor in physical health, in social stability, in 

 educational goals, in corporate activity, in convenience, in aesthetic 

 sensibility, every factor which is significant will be allowed to play 

 its due role in the conception of a balanced environment and way 

 of life. Such a city I term Holopolis the whole, the healthy city 

 for the whole, the healthy man (for whole and healthy are cognate) . 



Reverting to the specific aims of this conference, we may note 

 that the holopolitan city would be set, compact and nucleated, within 

 a vast area of park and recreational land which it would own and 

 keep forever inviolate against the incursion of suburbs. The pro- 

 gram as a whole would conserve some 10 million acres that would 

 otherwise be lost to fringe development. 



In Holopolis, there is virtually no air pollution whatever. Chil- 

 dren can walk to school in a school park. Every adult has abundant 

 exercise, recreation, and leisure facilities at the foot of his dwelling. 

 The average journey to work takes a few minutes. Such cities can 

 attain an architectural splendor, a variety of promenades, a wealth 

 of trees and lawns, plazas and fountains, more lovely than that of 

 the fairest cities of the Old World. 



