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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Concept of Community -- PART I: Roots of Community in Social Life Scenes and Kinds of Social Interaction -- CHAPTER 1 Human Life and Social Interaction -- George Homans Elements of Behavior -- William Golding The Sound of the Shell -- CHAPTER 2 Culture: Shared Perspectives -- Ruth Benedict The Diversity of Cultures -- Isaac Bashevis Singer The Old Goray and the New -- CHAPTER 3 Community as Place -- Robert Redfield The Villager's View of Life -- Thomas Wolfe from Look Homeward Angel -- CHAPTER 4 The Bonds of Community: Commitment and Loyalty -- Scott Greer Major Types of Human Groups -- H. D. F. Kitto The Polis -- Thucydides Pericles' Funeral Oration -- PART II: Kinds of Communities -- CHAPTER 5 Town and Village -- Van Wyck Brooks The Coast and the Hinterland -- Thorstein Veblen The Case of America: The Country Town -- CHAPTER 6 The City as Community -- Henri Pirenne Cities and European Civilization -- Charles Dickers The Keynote -- Sinclair Lewis from Babbitt -- CHAPTER 7 National Community -- David W. Minar Political Change -- Thomas Paine Of the Present Ability of America -- Vernon L. Arnett from The Democratic Revolution in the West Indies -- CHAPTER 8 The Community of Function -- W. F. Cottrell Of Time and the Railroader -- William J . Goode Community Within a Community: The Professions -- Norton Long The Corporation, its Satellites5 and the Locai Community -- G. P. Snow , Reflections on the College Past -- PART III: Politics and Community -- CHAPTER 9 The Nature of Political Culture -- Aristotle from Politics, Book I -- Theodore H. White: Retrospect on Yesterday's Future -- William Brammer fiuni The Flea Circus -- William L. Riordon To Hold Your District -- CHAPTER 10 The Integrative and Disruptive Effects of Politics

The fate of planned urban development and redevelopment largely depends on the political system. In the United States, political and governmental fragmentation has crucial consequences for development in physical, social, and political ways. The federal system, whatever its virtues, raises barriers which impede accommodation. The multiplicity of local units of government, not rationally determined, under mines co-ordination, power, and responsibility. The outcome of diffusion of power and dilution of responsibility is rigidity. Urban renewal is limited by the dichotomy of public and private control, tension between federal and municipal agencies, divi sion of power between different federal agencies, and fragmen tation of power at the local community level. Any change will require some adjustments in perspective. The possibilities for change, however, do not rest upon basic changes in political norms but, rather, on experimentation in their application. In conceptions of community, for example, the units have probably been too small, applying to limited, exclusive groups organized around shared activities. These come together, partially and fortuitously, in the urban scene. In that scene, the only en compassing organization is the political community. The political side of urban development and redevelopment is inescapable.—Ed.

The fate of planned Ur development & redevelopment largely depends on the pot system. In the US, pot & gov'al fragmentation has crucial consequences for development in physical, soc, & poi'al ways. The federal system raises barriers which impede accommodation. The multiplicity of local units of gov, not rationally determined, undermines co-ordination, power, & responsibility. The outcome of diffusion of power & dilution of responsibility is rigidity. Ur renewal is limited by the dichotomy of public & private control, tension between federal & municipal agencies, division of power between diff federal agencies, & fragmentation of power at the local community level. Any change will require some adjustments in perspective. The possibilities for change, however, do not rest upon basic changes in pol'al norms but on exp'tion in their application. In conceptions of community the units have probably been too small, applying to limited, exclusive groups organized around shared activities. These come together, partially & fortuitously, in the Ur scene, where the only encompassing org is the pol'al community. The pol'al side of Ur development & redevelopment is inescapable. AA.