Thompson use pattern that relates to some new transportation system, such that a full range of housing -- houses of all ages and quality --is arrayed along the principal channels of movement. An evolution from dispersed to linear residential patterns does come easily to mind but other options may also come to mind after harder thought. The principal point to be made is that we must learn how to inter-connect half-a-million people, spread out over a dozen counties, to achieve viable economic scale or we must assimilate them as migrants. 27 May 1971

DOI link for Thompson use pattern that relates to some new transportation system, such that a full range of housing -- houses of all ages and quality --is arrayed along the principal channels of movement. An evolution from dispersed to linear residential patterns does come easily to mind but other options may also come to mind after harder thought. The principal point to be made is that we must learn how to inter-connect half-a-million people, spread out over a dozen counties, to achieve viable economic scale or we must assimilate them as migrants. 27 May 1971

Thompson use pattern that relates to some new transportation system, such that a full range of housing -- houses of all ages and quality --is arrayed along the principal channels of movement. An evolution from dispersed to linear residential patterns does come easily to mind but other options may also come to mind after harder thought. The principal point to be made is that we must learn how to inter-connect half-a-million people, spread out over a dozen counties, to achieve viable economic scale or we must assimilate them as migrants. 27 May 1971