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Institutional religion's strategy for new towns
dc.contributor.advisor | Hinojosa, Jesus H. | |
dc.creator | Ruch, Carlton Edward | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T21:01:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T21:01:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1972 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-185885 | |
dc.description | Vita. | en |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study is to formulate general strategy recommendations which will result in a proposed planning process for institutional religion in new towns. To accomplish this, the author became familiar with institutional religion's planning for new towns in several ways. First, he became a participant-observer of two groups of religious leaders involved in new town planning. These were the Inter-Faith Consultation for the proposed new town of Flower Mound near Dallas, Texas, and RIP (Religious Institutions Planning) group for the proposed new town of The Woodlands, near Houston, Texas. To supplement this, he interviewed religious leaders in the new town of Columbia, Maryland, and corresponded with religious leaders in British new towns. On the basis of these initial investigations, a questionnaire was devised. It concentrated on what the author considered to be the six critical areas of new town strategy. ... | en |
dc.format.extent | xiii, 160 leaves | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Major urban and regional planning | en |
dc.subject.classification | 1972 Dissertation R899 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | New towns | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | New towns | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Texas | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Woodlands | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | New towns | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Texas | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Flower Mound | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Institutionalism (Religion) | en |
dc.title | Institutional religion's strategy for new towns | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Gardner, James R. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Seward, W. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Sorensen, H. B. | |
dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
dc.identifier.oclc | 4485955 |
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