What of the City? America's Greatest Issue-City Planning, What It Is and How to Go About It to Achieve Success (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The constant movement of people toward cities in the United States is unprecedented. The growth of cities in the past two decades has been phenomenal. This has brought about alarming conditions, and new and troublesome problems. American cities as a result of lack of foresight on the part of their proprietors have developed in a haphazard way. The result has been a change in the national character; a marked deterioration in the physique of the people; vast economic loss; and an imperative need for bettering conditions.

What we must do is to discover our needs, and how to go about supplying them. Making the cities more livable for the masses swarming to them is today the greatest issue of the United States. The Great War has served to intensify rather than to dint the need of the people in the cities.

City planning has become a fad and something like two hundred cities in this country have taken it up tentatively with only fragmentary plans; some with park ideals; still others with civic center creations; some with only transportation notions. Some few merely have single street improvement plans. All is called "city planning" - that is exactly what it is not and in the rapid development of cities may even be city unplanning.

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