ABSTRACT
The aim of community design and development should be to understand the actual nature and potentialities of men and to make possible their fuller realization. Community design should be in accord with what men really are, not in accord with theoretical abstractions about them. Contrary to this favorite theory of community planners, it seems that individuals thrive best with a considerable degree of spacing. Too great physical proximity sometimes has been a disadvantage of small community life. Towns and neighborhoods of different size will have the characteristics of a community in different degrees and in different ways. In many communities local groups become so numerous and distracting that they tend to submerge a consciousness of community, and become factors in community disintegration. Most American small communities suffer from lack of an all-round idea of community life.
