The Outer City: Growth Turning Into a Menace
final article in Times series on outer cities discusses their struggle with problems of growth; politicians, planners and residents of outer cities are increasingly worried about growth rates they once welcomed and pointed to with pride; for all their numbers and potential power, outer cities remain largely masses of little islands, unable to work together to harness forces shaping future; development continues to accelerate beyond their grasp; despite planners' new importance and leverage, private mkt remains most powerful engine of growth, shaping future of new outer city; new pub concern about unltd development has challenged both local govts and private mkt; govts' attempts to channel growth seen largely ineffective; private mkt seen having responded to challenge with new attention to quality in planning and design; cycle seen beginning anew and even areas that grew up as satellites to inner cities must, as they themselves grow, create their own poor cores; speculation on outer cities' future; illus of map of planned new city near Santa Ana, Calif