ABSTRACT
The ghetto is the symbol of modern environmental disaster. Parks and open space belong where people live as part of their environment. An environmental calamity of the nature would hardly be allowed in, or close to, a metropolitan area. This doubtless was one of the reasons for setting up the complex in the Four Corners, although the electric power is meant to be used in the booming population centers of Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. More than half of all American Indians living on reservations would be subject to the air pollution. The power companies and government agencies speak optimistically of reclamation, but semi-arid conditions on the plains make regrowth a costly, if not impossible, process. The environment surrounding people as they follow their daily rounds to work, shop, school, and play profoundly affects the quality of their existence.
