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A CHARACTERISTIC of the admirable series of studies issued by the Social Science Department of the University of Liverpool* is their attempt to foresee the problems which social and economic tendencies are presenting to-day and to indicate measures which might be taken either to solve them as they arise or to prevent them becoming too intractable. The latest addition to the New Merseyside Series is no exception. In this survey of the population problems of new estates, with special reference to Norris Green, Mr. Norman Williams indicates the difficulties caused in such districts by a failure in human understanding, together with a serious lack of co-ordination between the different departments of the local authority in the early stages of development. In regard to the provision of schools, for example, the survey reveals grave weaknesses in our present system of local government, an entirely new area with entirely new problems being administered by numerous departments, out of touch with the estate, often acting independently and sometimes in opposition to each other.
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Population Problems of Housing Estates. Nature 144, 166–167 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144166a0
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