W. Resources for Vocational and Other Pre-love X. Religion in Columbia, Y. Mental Health in Jew Towns 414 introduction It has been a little over a year since the Urban Studies Center began developing, under its contract with the OEO, the pre-operational plans for the New Community and Family Mobility System. Putting together the necessary elements for a new city even in the traditional form is complex enough, but the special social concerns integral to the New Community System make the undertaking vastly more complicated. During this past year extensive research and explorations have gone on into all aspects of this entirely new concept of New Community development. Scores of persons have been involved, as the listing of the Urban Studies Center's staff and its associates in Appendix A indicates. It has been a rewarding year, one that has seen the interest and acceptance of the New Community System concept grow rapidly. Enactment of special legislation to authorize the establishment of New Community Districts in Kentucky was a major breakthrough toward mounting the demonstration of the System in the Louisville urban region. There have been numerous other accomplishments which enhance the feasibility of the System. The major ones are described in a section of this interim report beginning on page 23. This section, premises New jobs. New homes. New communities. New environment. These are the ingredients of the New Community System now being planned by the University of Louisville's Urban Studies Center to help solve the impacted problems of poverty in America, rural and urban. It is a solution based on the well-reasoned conviction that: Human needs and aspirations can be linked with economic potential on an integrated, coordinated, inter-regional basis to the benefit of all, including the nation as a whole. |