The Social Effects of the Physical Environment

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The assumption of housers that planned manipulation of the physical environment can change social patterns in determinate ways seems to be only selectively true. It applies mainly to the extreme housing situations-removing people from substandard housing, providing for highly individual needs, and catering to an intellectual-aesthetic minority for whom housing values are extremely salient. It applies less to average housing situations, where the consequences of liva-bility and community integration may be as effectively realized simply by new housing, as such, without the benefit of planned neighborhoods. People in general may be far less sensitive to the discrepancy between the real and the ideal in housing than are the professionals.

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