For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

It should be possible for its residents to find everything they needed right there—jobs education recreation health care and any other necessity. The Rouse Theatre in Wilde Lake High School is named after James. ” In it would be the central office of the city’s governing body the Columbia Association.

James Wilson Rouse (April 26 1914 - April 9 1996) founder of The Rouse Company was a pioneering American real estate developer urban planner civic activist and later free enterprise-based philanthropist.