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Planning Nstall: The Americans took i step in the new direction in 1905, planning nstall to nstall eight 12-inch guns and no medium-sized ines in their Michigan and South Carolina. In he same year the Admiralty made a radical ex-sption to its usual policy of "follow and over-ake rather than initiate." Primarily concerned nth German naval competition and realizing hat in any case the new idea was in the air, the Iritish decided that a quick and secret shift rould give them a long head start with the new /pe, even though it would render their huge ex-ting battle fleet obsolescent.
The real task of the planning nstall board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where planning nstall is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" planning nstall, planning nstall according to theory, is a practical impossibility, for every executive decision is weighted by many factors of politics, expediency, finance, and local pressure. A conscientious executive and legislative body, nevertheless, can be assisted greatly in making decisions, if presented with the full implications, city-wide, of the alternatives.
Until such hypotheses i been formulated and tested, there is no basis i which the planner can decide whether the prc of decentralization should be accepted as i: itable or whether redevelopment, as the ten currently used, does or does not make sense, is probable that this absence of social data, as lated to physical planning nstall, is the reason for lack of a sound philosophical approach to planning nstall as a whole and accounts for the fai of planning nstall, at this time, to be much more tha series of expedients. |
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