ABSTRACT
As a model estate, Quarry Hill Flats was based on a simple, mechanistic theory of community needs and the means of satisfying them. We have examined some of the effects of this on the population and formal social life of the estate, and now turn to the consequences for the estate itself. It is of particular interest to see how change was accommodated, for though no environment can be immune from outside pressures, a model environment is designed on the assumption that it caters for all foreseeable needs, and its bureaucratic control ensures that the natural, small-scale and unplanned changes of ownership and use that occur in other environments cannot take place here.
