A federal subsidy program enabled McHargâs planned community at Woodlands
Evidence
The federal program helped to make possible one outstanding example of environmental planning â a new community thirty miles north of Houston developed by a subsidiary of entrepreneur George Mitchellâs oil-and-gas company. In the late 1960s, Mitchell began to envision a new community of 180,000 people on a well-wooded 20,000-acre tract, but the financing proved difficult to arrange. With the prospect of government loan guarantees, however, Mitchell decided to go ahead with the project in 1970. After reading Design with Nature, he hired Ian McHargâs firm to do the environmental design for the new suburb: Woodlands, Texas. â Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1062
Categorization
- XREF: Woodlands is the concrete payoff of McHargâs Design with Nature theory from earlier chapters, and the oil-and-gas company backer is a striking irony worth tracing. â connects to: Ian McHarg made ânatural processesâ the central lexicon of postwar planning â Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:âŠ, 702