The best volume I know of that show that amalgamations, be they of cities,
schools, or whatever, are detrimental to health and well-being is:

Sale, Kirkpatrick. Human scale. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
       1980.

Also don't forget:

R. G. Barker & P.V. Gump (1964)  Big school, small school.  Stanford. CA:
Stanford University press.


Dennis Raphael
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