To a large extent, the quality of life in Dutchess County tomorrow will depend upon decisions made today about where to locate the facilities that will be coming-- especially those that attract large numbers of people over long distances, such as offices, major shopping, and higher education. If these activities, along with houses, are scattered loosely across the countryside in the pattern that Regional Plan has identified as ” spread city,” then many vistas that today are green and open will become pockmarked with glass and brick and covered with ribbons and fields of asphalt.