ABSTRACT
What is known as a neighborhood, and what is now commonly defined as a region, have at least one characteristic in common – they possess a certain unity which is quite independent of political boundaries. The area with which the Regional Plan of New York is concerned, for instance, has no political unity, although it is possessed of other unifying characteristics of a social, economic and physical nature. Within this area there are definite political entities, such as villages, counties and cities, forming suitable divisions for sub-regional planning, and within those units there are definite local or neighborhood communities which are entirely without governmental limits and sometimes overlap into two or more municipal areas. Thus, in the planning of any large metropolitan area, we find that three kinds of communities are involved:
1. The regional community, which embraces many municipal communities and is, therefore, a family of communities;
2. The village, county or city community; 3. The neighborhood community.
