ABSTRACT
In the history of India and the East Indies the planning and creation of new colonies and communities sometimes was a major element of national policy, and some of these new settlements grew into great empires. The planning and founding of new communities has been a common undertaking in America, as it has been the world over. Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of American communities have been originated deliberately as new creations. Many American undertakings to create new communities have been tragedies because they lacked a spirit of inclusiveness and a sense of good proportion. Communities in which the quality of life purpose was strong have survived much better than others. Wherever men of competence and creative intelligence are willing to pay the price in preparation and in the arduous, persistent effort which creation always involves, the designing and developing of new communities is a worth-while field of effort.
