COMMUNITAS, 1947 - city organization

PAUL AND PERCIVAL GOODMAN

COMMUNITAS, 1947

“Communitas is explicitly organized as a tree: it is divided into four concentric major zones, the innermost being a commercial center, the next a university, the third residential and medical, and fourth open country. Each of these is further subdivided: the commercial center is consisting of individual houses, but of apartment blocks, each of these containing further individual dwelling units. Finally, the open country is divided into three segments: forest preserves, agriculture, and vacation-lands. The overall organization is a tree.”