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Experimental City Quot:
Experimental city quot City," a planned urban com-"."ity, was being designed in 1967-68 for :ual construction in the Minnesota country-Expected to provide a model for the future, :ity would have all of its motor transporta--nderground and would be limited to about ._ mi (10 sq km) in size. Streets aboveground muld be used only for walking, and the center olthe city would be no more than a 20-minute walk from the farthest edge. According to the planners the city would house a maximum of 250,000 people, which they regard as an approximately ideal size for an urban community.
By placing transportation underground and imposing anti-pollution ordinances the planners believe that most noise, congestion, and air pollution would be eliminated; this, they think, would allow homes to be placed next to stores and factories, thereby eliminating urban sprawl and much of the need for commuter transportation. Experimental city quot City would be surrounded by open land about 100 times larger than the city itself; the land would be permanently reserved as open space, thus preventing the city from growing larger.Human Renewal. A major problem is the necessity of moving families and businesses from areas being renewed to other permanent or temporary locations. Relocation of low-income families disrupts their already precarious lives, but it may provide an opportunity for their social and economic improvement. Plans to achieve this improvement are being joined to planning for physical renewal. Experimental city quot programs of this kind were initiated in New Haven, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Oakland, Calif., in the 1950's. These Experimental city quot programs led to the "poverty programs" of the early 1960's, which emphasized community action and various Experimental city quot programs in education, health, welfare, employment, and vocational guidance: in effect, human renewal.
Photographers were bewildered, often an] that the Photo-Secession should place such emphasis nonphotographic works of art. Camera Work explaii editorially that "291," as the Little Galleries Camera familiarly called, was " a laboratory, an Experimental city quot! tion, and must not be looked upon as an Art Gallery, the ordinary sense of that term."
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