The Hartland Area Project is an effort to layout a district in a typical rural community with a village center containing an ultimate school population of about one thousand (1000) children in all grades and a total population of about four thousand (4000) people (with a present area of about one hundred ten (110) square miles and containing a population of approximately “twenty-five hundred (2500) people), and to make available and to bring to bear on this group, with generous adequacy, all the varied creative and constructive social influences to the end of more rapidly and effectively evolving a richer and more abundant individual and community life. It it is comparable in the social field to intensive research and development work carried on by great industries for material progress in contrast to social progress, and as such will always be planning and experimenting on the frontiers of social organization and progress.
