Practical Guide in the Preparation of Town Planning Schemes (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Town Planning simply represents the attempt of the community to control town development with a view to providing health, convenience and beauty. There have, in the past, been times when the City as the centre, has had predominating importance. Great and beautiful cities like Athens or Venice have resulted. They were the expression of what was best in the life of their citizens, and were planned to minister to its convenience and to enhance its glory. It is somewhat remarkable that in spite of the vast development of scientific organization as an important element of industrial life throughout the last century, We should have failed entirely to apply this organization to our city development.

We have allowed our towns to grow in such a haphazard manner that we find the banks of our canals and the margins of our railway sidings crowded with rows of cottages, while the materials of our industry, for want of immediate access to these very canals and sidings, have to be carted long distances at great expense and often with much resulting congestion of traffic. Town Planning when fully carried out, means the reservation for industrial uses of the areas most valuable for the purpose by reason of having immediate access to rail, road or water conveniences. It means arranging for the most convenient communication by road or railway between these industrial regions and the most healthy and attractive areas; which again would be reserved and most carefully laid out for resi dential purposes. It also means providing the most convenient means of access possible between both these areas and the great centres of exchange, of wholesale and retail business, all which would enormously add to the efficiency of the population, facilitating their industrial activities and rendering their dwellings more healthy and attractive.

The movement which has brought into being Mr. Burns' Town Planning Act, and which is seeking to find through that Act the means of realizing its aims, indicates a great development of the civic spirit and if this continues to grow it is not too much to say that Town Planning will prove to be the first step in the creation of a new type of beautiful cities expressing what is best in modern life.

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