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Part I. Public involvement in new community development___________-_ a 
Introduction 
Overview 
A. Guidelines for State involvement in the development of new 
communities in Massachusetts: Toward a State urban 
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LAWRENCE ELLIOTT SUSSKIND, MASSACHUSETTS 
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
The need for effective State involvement in the urbani- 
zation process has never been more critical. Constitu- 
tionally, the States are the ultimate holders of the police 
power. Politically, State governments are at least one 
step removed from the interjurisdictional conflicts which 
so often impede areawide planning for metropolitan 
growth. For these and numerous other reasons, any 
rational policy allocating responsibility for the develop- 
ment of urbanizing land and lagging regions would more 
than likely assign a wide range of powers to the State 
governments. State governments need to decide what 
strategy they will adopt to insure balanced regional 
development and what types of incentive-control systems 
they will employ to foster efficient, equitable, and 
ecologically sound land usage. 
B. Public involvement in new community development: Justifica- 
tion, problems and a proposal________________1_-_______ 57 
R. STEPHEN BROWNING, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
* * * with all the publicity given to the concept of new 
communities, very little positive action has been taken by 
either the public or the private sectors to help develop 
them * * * the problem with the new community concept 
is more political and legal in nature * * * institutional 
structures do not exist which would be capable of suc- 
cessfully undertaking such a large scale task. Moreover, it 
is not yet clear * * * whether they would have the con- 
stitutional authority to act. 
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Introduction 
A. The crisis in shoreline recreation: A report on land use manage- 
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DENNIS W. DUCSIK, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF 
TECH NOLOGY 
[In the past] there has been no perceived need for 
publie interference in the allocative workings of the pri- 
vate market (with respect to public recreational lands), 
the result is that today, approximately 90 percent of this 
limited unique commodity is under private control, 3 
percent is restricted military area and only 5 to 7 percent 
of the shoreline is publicly owned. Thus land along the 
coastline has become one of the most scarce of our valuable 
natural resources * * * Jt has become increasingly clear in 
recent vears that the private market mechanisms in our 
economic system are failing to incorporate important 
societal values and are not providing for proper expression 
of these values * * * 
B. Pricing policies for public recreation lands____________---- 145 
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