Finishing these runaway remarks about the layout of the Swedish new cities, I would like to remind you that the task of creating a self-suffering city from a satellite city in Sweden, as in all other capitalist states, is very complicated due to the operation of various spontaneous forces. One of the American pioneers of the idea of new cities, the author of the famous project Radburn, Klaren Stein, who released a book on the way to new cities several years ago, admits to its pages that not a single new city as an independent education (not satellite), which has its own economic base and social interests, in the United States has not yet been created.
The same flock belongs to the following characteristic confession: the old cities from year to year are degraded with constant growth of slums, debt, artificial pyramidal growth of land prices, blockage of street traffic, increasing operational costs and taxes. The migration of industry and the population, heading to free spaces beyond the borders of cities, occurs in conditions of the maximum disorder, recreating the same shortcomings in some distance. In the United States, in a significant number and for the most part with speculative goals, all kinds of villages and residential arrays are spontaneously and randomly created, while the planned construction of new cities and even working villages there are very insignificant.
Urban planning attempts to create various settlements that are versed in this essay dates back to the last twentieth anniversary. So, by the mid-30s, the United States includes an attempt to create a new type of cities, the so-called cities of the green belt (Greenbelt-towns). The bourgeois press advertised these towns as a form of resettlement of a new type, which provides healthy and attractive living conditions resettled from large cities.
