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Application of Europe’s new town policies to the building of enough towns in 
the U.S. to accommodate much of the expected population increase over the 
next twenty years. 
Warner, Sam Bass Jr., editor. Planning for a Nation of Cities. Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1966. 310 p. ) 
A collection of essays on urban planning dealing with the Federal responsi- 
bility, work and quality of urban life, responsive physical planning, and urban 
services. Of particular interest in regard to new communities are John R. James’ 
essay on “Regional Planning in Britain’? and Daniel R. Mandelher’s on “A Legal 
Strategy for Urban Development.”’ 
Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies. Fort Lincoln New Town. Fort 
Lincoln Advisory Panel Report and recommendations on program objectives, 
presented to Edward Logue, principal development consultant. Washington, 
D.C., 1968. 26 p. 
Outline of objectives focused on citizen participation, racial and economic 
integration, and community facilities and services. 
Weaver, Robert C. Dilemnas of Urban America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 
Harvard University Press, 1965. 138 p. 
The need for a Federal urban land policy that is nondoctrinaire, flexible, 
many faceted, and responsive to the problems and life style or residents is the 
main point of this book based on the 1965 Godkin Lectures at Harvard. 
Urbanization, new communities, urban renewal, and the dilemnas of race in 
relation to housing and urban renewal are discussed. 
Weiss, Shirley F. ‘(New Town Development in the United States.” Journal for 
Public Administration (Union of South Africa). June 1969. p. 185-193. 
Summary of research undertaken at the University of North Carolina. Survey 
of recent development, performance of the private sector, and proposals for a 
national new community building program. The Federal New Communities 
Act of 1968 is also discussed. 
Weissbound, Herbert and Herbert Chinnick. An Urban Strategy. Santa Barbara, 
California, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1968. 13 p. 
A bold 10-year program proposed for mass relocation of Negroes residing in 
the center city ghettos to integrated new towns tied to metropolitan transit 
systems. Recommendation to limit all Federal loans and grants to metropolitan 
areas with desegregated new town plans. 
Wendt, Paul F. ‘‘Large Scale Community Development.” Journal of Finance. 
May 1967. p. 220-239. 
An analysis of the difficulties of financing new towns. 
Wendt, Paul F. and Alan R. Cerf. “Investment in Community Development 
and Urban Development.” In their Real Estate Investment, Analysis and Taza- 
tion New York, McGraw-Hill, 1969. p. 230-239. 
Determinants of cash flow and rate of return in a new community, and 
description of a large-scale new community computer model. Analysis of the 
types of corporations now engaged in community development. 
Werthman, Carl, Jerry $8. Mandel and Tex Diesntfrey. Planning of the Purchase 
Decisions: Why People Buy in Planned Communities. University of California. 
Institute of Urban and Regional Development. Center for Planning and 
Development Research. Berkeley, 1965. 229 p. (Monograph No. 2) 
White, John Robert. ‘““Economic Assessment of Large Projects.” The Appraisal 
Journal. July 1969. p. 360-371. 
An analysis of market research problems in large-scale residential develop- 
ment; a definition and illustration of the cash flow technique. Federal financing 
role in new communities. 
Whyte, William H. Cluster Development. New York, N.Y. American Conservation 
Association, 1964. 130 p. 
Chapter VIII, ‘Super Developments,” describes several new communities 
planned around the cluster design. 
Whyte, William H. The Last Landscape. New York, Doubleday, 1968. 376 p. 
_ A commentary on the shortcomings of British and U.S. new town experience 
' in the postwar era in the chapter on ‘‘New Towns.”’ 
Winthrop, Henry. ‘‘Modern Proposals for the Physical Decentralization of Com- 
munity.’’ Land Economics. February 1967. p. 10-24. 
An essay on factors of urban decentralization, with emphasis on the new 
community concepts of E.A. Gutkind, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and others. 
Wurster, Catherine Bauer. ‘““The Form and Structure of the Future Urban Com- 
plex.” In Wingo, Lowden, Jr. editor, Cities and Space; the future use of urban 
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