ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the four communities (Roland Park, Maryland; Radburn, New Jersey; Twin Oaks, Virginia; and Seaside, Florida), which shows the procedures each community incorporated to attract residents with the same values, aspirations, and goals–people who were likely to get along with one another. The designs of Roland Park, Radburn, Twin Oaks, and Seaside highlight the inherently discriminatory nature of communities. The chapter also shows how communities can be designed to achieve homogeneity, and how different projects use different methods to attract or exclude targeted groups, including advertising by developers and screening by realtors or the residents themselves. It explains other elements that have community- generating potential: community organizations, institutions that develop greater interdependence between an individual resident and the group, a physical environment that presents a distinctive appearance and identity, institutions such as schools and churches, and parks and squares that encourage leisure- time activities.
