Planned Community Archives, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving the quality of community development in the United States. It seeks to use its archival, research, publishing and instructional resources to maintain the historical records of community development projects, to prepare and disseminate information and analysis drawn form these records, and to design and participate in interdisciplinary courses of instruction on community development.

William Nicoson, Esq., is the president of Planned Community Archives, Inc. Nicoson has served as director of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's new community assistance programs from 1970-1972; served as a member of the New Towns Task Force of the Twentieth Century Fund; taught courses in urban and economic development at George Mason University; and has spoken and written extensively on growth policy formulation, land development, and land use control.

The William Nicoson Collection of the Planned Community Archives contains the following:

• Brochures, pamphlets, and reports on United States and European New Towns
• New communities handbook
• Articles, brochures, and newsclippings on Reston, Virginia

The William Nicoson Newspaper Columns Collection Features columns written by Nicoson for The Connection and Reston Times newspapers of Reston, Virginia. These may be browsed at:

http://u2.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/handle/1920/41

Special Collections & Archives(SC&A) preserves and makes available to all students, faculty and researchers many kinds of original and scholarly materials. Subject areas in SC&A include Northern Virginiana, Planned Communities, Congressional Papers, Performing Arts, Maps, the Civil War, and George Mason University. Formats in SC&A include manuscripts, rare books, playbills, musical scores, audio and videotapes, architectural drawings, photographs and slides.