FROM ISSUE NUMBER 56 - SUMMER 1979 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
The new towns program and why it failed
FIRST authorized in 1968, then significantly expanded in 1970, the New Communities program was, according to its former administrator, “reduced to a salvage operation in exactly four years.” The program was dismantled in the fall of 1978, three years after even the more modest of its objectives had been jettisoned in a scramble to bolster the precarious financial positions of individual projects.
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