Recognizing that "our present processes of urban community development programs were wasteful and destructive and that our existing urban development programs were contributing to that waste and destruction",l the U. S. Congress enacted the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 with the stated objective "the development of a national urban growth policy". The most inno 2 vative portion of this legislation was Title VII of this Act which authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to guarantee loans of up to $50 million to public or private developers of new communities. The Congress looked towards new communities as a strategy to avoid the continuing problems of increased, unplanned urban growth and the associated inefficient and wasteful use of land resources, pollution of air and water, inefficient and expensive public services and facilities and segregation of people by 3 income and race • The Office of New Communities Development (ONCD) was established in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a strong new communities program.

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Forward.- Introduction: Urban Systems, Systems Simulation and Policy Analysis.- I: Applications to Comprehensive Urban Development and New Community Planning.- Urbanization Sub & Super: A Conceptual Measure of New Communities.- Teleclug: An Urban Planning Simulation Game.- Mikegasimo 1973: The Milton Keynes Gaming Simulation Model.- Alternative Mathematical Programming Approaches to New Town Planning.- New Communities: An Analytical Approach.- II: Applications to Urban Management.- Systems for Urban Planning and Management.- Lamps: The Local Authority Management and Planning System.- L.A.M.P.S.: The Local Authorities Management Planning Simulation.- Build: A Social Technical Game.- Computer Scientist and Urban Manager: The Odd Couple.- Comparing Urban Dynamics with Lowell, Massachusetts.- A Dynamic Lowry Model.- III : Specialized Applications of Urban Simulation Analysis.- Planning Large Scale Land Development Projects: A Systems Approach.- Fiscal Impact Analysis.- A Financial Planning System for the Winter Services Programme.- A Dynamic Housing Simulation Model.- Tilt and Windfall Effects in the Incidence of Property Taxes.- IV: Interactive Simulation and Simulation Gaming.- The Purpose of Gaming Simulation.- Gaming and Gaming Simulation: An Overview for Teachers, Trainers and Community Workers.- Simulation Gaming: The Community Settling.- A Demonstration of Impasse? and Urban Impasse?.- Scenario Game.- Evaluation of Gaming Scenarios as Inputs to Policy Analysis.- Comparative Role Perceptions for Public Policy Analysis.- The Future of Urban Simulation and the Governmental Process.