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The New Town of Columbia, Maryland

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Environment and Utopia

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Abstract

The United States of America has become an urban nation. Since 1920, when a census first showed that more of the population was living in urban than in rural areas, the trend toward urbanization has transformed American life. By 1970, 74% of the population lived in cities of more than 2500; 69% in one of the 243 “standard metropolitan statistical areas” (consisting of a core city of at least 50,000 plus contiguous urbanized counties). These megalopolises—263 as of 1972—for the most part exhibit a now familiar pattern: an inner city of older buildings, high in density, whose shrinking population consists increasingly of the black, the poor, and the old; and a spreading suburban ring, defended by zoning, of low-density housing occupied mainly by middle-class whites, many of whom commute to jobs in the city.1

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    Rudolf Moos & Robert Brownstein

  2. Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, USA

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Moos, R., Brownstein, R. (1977). The New Town of Columbia, Maryland. In: Environment and Utopia. The Plenum Social Ecology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8597-8_5

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