Community Planning in the Netherlands.

The article discusses reaction of a some rural families to a recently established community in a reclaimed area of Zuider Zee in the Netherlands. It also analyses some facts as the difference in the degree of satisfaction of wives of farm operators and agricultural laborers with community planning and housing, evidences of emergence of a social community and the success of planning of the village community. For the analysis, one village community of the Northest Polder is studied and the data were obtained by interviewing 122 housewives whose husbands were either farm operators or agricultural laborers and from various governmental officials who had assisted with the reclamation project. The wives of larger-farm operators were better educated, were more mobile, and had more community and extra community contacts than wives of smaller-farm operators and agricultural laborers. And they were better satisfied. There was no significant relationship between size of family, length of marriage, religious preference and occupational status. The results show that tenure is related to the degree to which families were satisfied with community planning and housing. As a whole, it can be concluded that community planning is getting success and a social community is emerging.